NOT X CS: INTRODUCING VERNAC

Over the next month leading up to the NOTXCS collaboration exhibition at the Wallplay in New York City, Another Africa will be releasing a series of interviews with the different collaborators we worked with in South Africa on our project. 

The second collaboration is with Vernac bags who are designed by Dennis Chuene in Durbanville near Cape Town. 

Here is an exert from Anotherafrica.net who are media partner with the NOTXCHRISSAUNDERS exhibition:

'Coming of age is filled with periods of awkwardness, of playing with boundaries and self-expression.  Those attempts to discover how to align our clothes with our personalities, ideas and such.

I recall in high school a friend strutting about in slender very pointy black patent brogues. Those coveted Fluevogs were the precursor to the days when it was trendy to wear Dr. Martens. She happily stood out, whilst others snickered calling them elf shoes, and other choice unnameable descriptors. But Denise simply laughed and kept wearing her “soles for unique souls”.

Many a fashion designer finds inspiration in the Denise’s of this world, and the same can be said of Dennis Chuene. In his case the kids that helped form his early appreciation of fashion, were the eccentric musicians of his teens. Whilst musicians today still seem to have significant sway in South Africa, the designer finds his inspiration in the humble plastic traveling bag.'

To read more head to: http://www.anotherafrica.net/design/fashion/in-conversation-with-dennis-chuene-a-cape-town-based-fashion-designer 

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NOTXCS: INTRODUCING DR. PACHANGA

Over the next month leading up to the NOTXCS collaboration exhibition at the Wallplay in New York City, Another Africa will be releasing a series of interviews with the different collaborators we worked with in South Africa on our project. 

The first of those is DR Pachanga AKA JR Onyangunga.

Here is an exert from Another Africa: 

' NOT x Chris Saunders | A Fashion & Photography collaboration from New York to South Africa featuring Dr. Pachanga

For some fashion merely constitutes items of clothing to cover the body, and for others it’s the palette for creativity and individuality. Johannesburg based vintage clothier,  Jean-Rene Onyagunga who goes by the alias Dr. Pachanga, falls into the later category. ' 

You can read the rest of the article at: http://www.anotherafrica.net/design/fashion/in-conversation-with-dr-pachanga-a-johannesburg-based-vintage-clothier

Check in over the next few weeks to see more. 

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NOTXCS : Another Africa

 Image by Justin McGee

The first press release on Another Africa is out. Missla Libsekal breaks down our process into a well written insightful series of dialogue in the form of a interview. 

All of this is aiming towards the release of our exhibition in NYC next month at WallPlay.

‘NOT x Chris Saunders’ an experimental fashion and photography collaboration from New York to South Africa made possible by the Internet.

Armed with a bit of bandwidth and a few good keywords plugged into google’s image search, documentation of far flung happenings are only as far your finger tips. Add social media to the mix and you can track down near to anyone with an online presence. This hyper-connectivity is changing the prospects for creative collaboration.

Read the rest of the article at: http://www.anotherafrica.net/design/fashion/in-conversation-with-jenny-lai-chris-saunders-on-digitally-enabled-cross-cultural-creative-collaborations

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Not X Chris Saunders Exhibition in NYC Crowd funding

http://igg.me/at/notxcs/x/8061117

Not (Jenny Lai) and myself completed an amazing collaborative body of work earlier this year and we are now getting ready to exhibit it in NYC and have launched a crowdfunding campaign. The point of the work, to expose the uniqueness of South African creativity globally. We wanted to show the uniqueness of the South African process and what makes it so unique.

Our Collaborators where Vernac Bags Dennis Chuene), Mac D the puppet maker from Orange Farm, Floyd Avenue Floyd Funky-LowLife Avenue) from the Smarteez collective in Soweto and Dr Pachanga AKAJean Rene Maximillion.

Please help us make this exhibition happen. We have an amazing space in the Lower East side call Wallplay (www.wallplay.com) that are hosting us plus an amazing plan to showcase the work.

Lets expose the vibrancy through a positive showcase of exceptional work between borders.

Help us by contributing anything from $10 US. We really appreciate it!

Visit the Indiegogo page for more information on the collaboration plus a 

video about the project.

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