“When does a work become an archive? I used to make work thinking I was deliberately making archives but now I wonder how that sits when time, itself, plays a significant role in shaping the archiving-ness of an archive.”

Simnikiwe Buhlungu will take this as a starting point for speaking about the work This we are not making up, included in Remnants and from there brought out her practice and how she works in a poignant and socio-politically charged time.

 Simnikiwe Buhlungu is an artist from Johannesburg, South Africa, currently based in Amsterdam, ​​the Netherlands​​​​​​. Interested in ​processes of ​knowledge production​ ​—​ ​how it is produced, by whom and how it is disseminated​ ​—​ ​Buhlungu locates socio-historical and everyday phenomena by navigating these questions and their inexhaustible potential answers via research-based methodologies. Through this, she maps points of cognisance which situate various layers of awareness as reverberating​​​​ ecologies.