—defunct context is a research platform and curatorial strategy that explores how history, memory, and ancestral knowledge are preserved outside and in tandem with traditional written records. Functioning as an incubator for residencies and student projects, it challenges colonial museum aesthetics and institutional space constraints.

The Camera Obscura Works challenge contemporary photography’s obsession with portable images and representation, shifting the focus back to the camera as a physical space housing a body. Grounded in the optical theories of 10th-century scientist Alhazen and Diane Arbus's situated gaze, the project positions the image as an infinite, perpetually evolving phenomenon.

The MaBareBare Project contextualizes nine years of creative engagement with Associate Prof. George Mahashe’s imagining of Khelobedu—the philosophy, culture, and mythologies of South Africa's matrilineal Balobedu dynasty. Operating within contemporary artistic practice, the project views local ancestral knowledge and 170 years of colonial text as one inseparable, entangled archive.

The Sotho title of this exhibition translates in English as 'home north', and the show, which consists predominantly of photographic portraits, is the outcome of Mahashe's journeys north of Gauteng to seek the wisdom of his ancestors.

The exhibition Interfacing New Heavens brings together two different positions that contemplate the entanglement of science and art; indigenous knowledge systems and their inquiry within the discursive terrain of astronomy; the agency of “vibrant matter”; and the dreamscape as research methodology. The series of works by Vanessa Lorenzo and Tebogo George Mahashe reflect on the possibilities of these interactions and their affect on our present.