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Harvest
Subjective selection of fragments from our processes
Roundtable: Harvest Live for Tell It to the Mountains, December 10, 2020. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.

Harvest is a strategy and inventory of research fragments subjectively selected by the team that consists of passing thoughts, impressions and anecdotes gleaned from conversation and correspondence.

As an idiosyncratic exercise, Harvest does not aspire to create an exhaustive or ‘complete’ archive but rather to encourage the subjective curiosity of the 'harvester', enabling the collection of compelling ideas from disparate sources. Compiled under this logic, unexpected interconnections and juxtapositions between seemingly unlike or unrelated things can surface.

Entries are characterised by maker, sharer, tags, and source (conversation, correspondence, presentation, or publication). An accompanying text offers a brief framing of the entry’s provenance.

The entries accumulated during Harvest sessions can become prompts for future conversations in a call-and-response between past and present engagements; tracing common threads between conversations as new voices expand on previous insights.

A still frame from the video recording of a roundtable discussion that accompanied the ‘Tell It to the Mountains’ exhibition in A4’s gallery. A top-down view of a table that is strewn with postcard-size reproductions of photographs by Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Mikhael Subotzky, with participants seated around it.
Roundtable: Harvest Live for Tell It to the Mountains, December 10, 2020. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
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