The Citizen Canvas is a short film produced for the 2024 UTA-Do workshop by the collective, @ajabuajabu1630. A beautiful visual chronicle of Dar es Salaam is assembled, and brings together many of this city's landscapes, practices and histories. For the workshop processes, participants also take instruction from local artists and how they live and document their experiences in their cities. The objective is to contribute to re-narrations of this metropolis from its margins, documenting, at once, the dependable and ironic violence of "independence," but, as well, the understanding that cities like Dar es Salaam can also be "a laboratory of what freedom might be."

Credits: @jaympango @berniemshana @dj_seche @gertrude_faith. Instrumentals by Otieno Wakake (@wakakebrand) and an excerpt of a song by Temela Hassan (@temelahassan).

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