The sculpture was first installed in the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art, designed by Thomas Heatherwick, suspended in the atrium carved from the silos of the 100-year old grain factory the museum is built on. The carved-out atrium was a science-fiction setting for the materialisation of this space-ship sculpture, and the museum’s proximity to Cape Town’s docks connects with the history of the Black Star Line shipping company. The sculpture has since appeared as an installation in its dismantled form in the exhibition Exploded View on Albert Road in Woodstock, close to where Woodstock Beach once lay on Cape Town’s coastline prior to the land reclamation projects, and apartheid forced-removals, of the 1950s. We intend to tour the sculpture to West Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and the US, touching on the intended routes of Garvey’s line, during the centenary period of the Black Star Line from 2019 – 2022. The sculpture slipped the constraints of geography in 2020 in its digital form in Digi-Dub Club.
An African Robots and SPACECRAFT Project
