Lecture by Mwangi Hutter

Lecture One:

            For one of my lectures, I went to the lecture by Mwangi Hutter on April 26 at the Scugham Engineering and Mining building. Mwangi Hutter is the name of an artist couple from Africa with one artistic personality. In their work, they like to touch upon ideas of interconnectivity between people with an idea of a “social body, working together and continentally” (Mwangi Hutter). This idea is also shared in the way the couple have joined their identity to form Mwangi Hutter.

            During the lecture, she (husband wasn’t there) talked about their work, showing several images and brief videos of some of their work. One incuded was a series of images called “Burning Desire to be Touched”. The artist pair work with a variety of media from paint to video. They use sound in most of their works, which is made using the voice of the wife. She also touched upon an art exhibit they are currently working on called “Not a Single Story” that is made in a field in Africa using metal boxes, rope and sound. Overall they have over 300 works collectively.

            I found their work interesting, though I did not particularly like all of their works that they displayed at the lecture.