The visual artists Eric Mukalazi, Mugeni Mukanga and Alex Lyons participated at the 7^th edition of the LaBa! Arts Festival, building a Camera Obscura for visitors to experience the fundamentals of a camera. Their project was called "Strange Fruits" and won the public award selected by the visitors of the festival. The price is an exhibition at the GZK/ UGCS Kunst-Container.
Their exhibition "Lost Kinema Experiment" is based on the Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment, a travelling cinema in 1930's British Colonial Africa. The cinema placed in the back of a wagon travelled from Uganda through Tanganyika and Rhodesia to South Africa. The intention was to educate locals about British forms of medicine, agriculture etc.
Taking up this concept and turning it upside down the three artists will set up an informal Kibanda (local cinema) in down town Kampala showing childhood videos of "black" and "white" cultural backgrounds, engaging the audience in informal conversations and discussions.
The results of this one day experiment will be shown in picture and video during the exhibition at the GZK/ UGCS Kunst-Container from May 16^th to June 6^th 2014.