In the summer of 2021 Collective Ending partnered with invited collaborators across the disciplines of fashion, publishing, film and performance to host ‘Parasol’, an alternative programme of interdisciplinary events that celebrated exchange and collaboration between art forms. 

Seam, Strata, Séance was an audiovisual landscape co-curated by Maia Magoga, Alia Hamaoui and Ted Le Swer, featuring works by Tavga Guttstadt, Sherie Sitauze and Yuli Serfaty that critically engaged with ecology, (de)coloniality and knowledge production. Maia designed the visual identity, graphics and exhibition text for the show. 

”All three works are framed within unique geopolitical contexts yet are tied together in their desire to communicate alternative narratives that subvert hegemonic systems of knowledge and power. Touching on notions of epistemic violence - a violence that seeks to erase and eradicate histories, stories and truths that exist on the ‘peripheries’- all three works share a common understanding of the imperialist logic that still runs through dominant cultural narratives. These acts of violence, both literal and intangible in reach, take the form of othering, forced cultural assimilation, annihilation and resource extraction.

Each work prompts us to recognise the ways in which events from the past still linger- in language, on borders, in bodies- bringing our attention to a present that is haunted with fragments of complex and interconnected histories. Here, the inanimate becomes animate; the land, the tongue and the seed become emblems for alternate possibilities of knowing and archiving.⁣”⁣