We are excited to share a brilliant text contribution by our fellow Nkule Mabaso and Ram Krishna Ranjan 'When Two Southerners Meet on a Tram in Gothenburg, Sweden, which can be found in Parse Journal.

It is one of the featured articles for May 2024 selected by Jyoti Mistry, the PARSE Editor-in-chief.⁠

The text navigates the tensions, contradictions and common ground around the question of justice and violence read through the respective practices of two PhD candidates at HDK-Valand. Their work is rooted in the geographical specificities of South Africa and India and explores the theme of violence, emanating from the “contact points” of their situatedness, which resist immediate “common ground” and yet function as an intervention in how common rhetorical strategies around creative regimes are engaged in the formulation of aesthetic experiences.⁠
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This proposed text emanates from and builds on an ongoing conversation between two southerners—Nkule from South Africa and Ram from India. A version of this conversation, along with a video work, was publicly performed during the PARSE conference on Violence in 2021. Through the text we attempt to foreground the experiential over the argumentative register in order to further develop the ideas explored in the video.

Full article here