Join us for a gathering and presentation of Shying a Way, a publication/research notebook created at the conclusion of a three-year collaboration between CCA, Lagos and Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Art as a proposal for a future distributed university. 

On the concept of shyness, Daniel Peltz, the project co-director writes: “We began our investigation of shyness from the ecological phenomenon known as crown shyness, whereby trees of similar and differing species, under certain conditions, exhibit an awareness of each other, restricting their own growth to allow space for light to travel between them. Shyness is an often-maligned contemporary character trait, when used with reference to humans, and yet one that is commonly found in art and artists. In a presentation society, we gather to wonder, what ways of knowing, and not knowing, might we find trapped in the resistant posture of shyness?”

Nontobeko Ntombela, a member of the research team, and Daniel Peltz, the project co-director, will share reflections on the book and present and discuss the futures of the project.