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Scott Eric Williams

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Anytek, really.
Arts Education and Visual art.
Media: weaving, zines, wheatpaste, Hikikomori, Lego, Tek, libraries.
Western Cape, South Africa

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Last year I worked with the artist, @nyakallomaleke_ on this zine for her Standard Bank artist of the year exhibition titled, "To Teach in Ways that Teaches us to Care for the Soul". I think we found sweet common threads in our views on education for young people. We also found camaraderie in renegade praxis... going completely leftfield in our embrace of the Undercommons.

What resulted was a collaborative zine that displayed our thinking around mark-making, surface interventions, the fabric of society ... and ultimately a search for an education that heals and that encourages joy. The zine takes on the form of meta-learning chart and organic educational resource.

Free zines can be collected at the current run of the exhibition at @birdstreetgallerynmu
https://www.instagram.com/p/DafXjaBDsGt/?igsh=MTFpaGZhNXB2aXo2cg== by @weavetek

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Burning Museum is an artist collective formed in Cape Town, South Africa.
Our work explores history, memory, language, and place — especially the stories that have been erased, overlooked, or deliberately silenced.
We work across public space, archives, print, performance, and installation, treating the city itself as both a site and a subject.
This page will share a selection of our past projects, tracing how our practice has unfolded over time
#BurningMuseum #ArtistCollective #SouthAfricanArt #PublicArt #ArchivalPractice by @weavetek

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BEHIND-THE-PATTERN Episode 3: Beyond Convulsion: Fashion, Memory and the Possibilities of the Archive

The final Behind-the-Pattern dialogue brings Scott Williams into conversation with Bongani Tau for a reflective exchange on education, fashion and African knowledge-making beyond inherited institutional frames.

Drawing on their shared work within New Patterns — from the Mapungubwe Prototype Group to township-based research in Daveyton — the conversation asks what becomes possible when lived experience is treated not as supplementary material, but as archive.

Moving between South African and European teaching contexts, Bongani reflects on the limits of formal education systems and the necessity of non-formal, relational pedagogies that allow curiosity, vulnerability and local intelligence to surface. Fashion emerges here not as trend or industry, but as a technology of memory — holding survival, dignity and futurity at once.

Engaging Achille Mbembe’s notion of the colonial subject held in convulsion, the dialogue turns toward questions of recovery, reversal and abundance. Rather than seeking to discover African archives, this episode insists they already exist — in people, materials, sound, garments and everyday practices — and asks how they might be held, documented and circulated with care.

Closing the series, this conversation positions the New Patterns workbooks not as authoritative texts, but as invitations: tools for decentralised learning, ethical pedagogy and archives already in motion.

🎬 Premieres Friday 19 December at 12pm on YouTube
🔗 Link in bio

Archival & Image Credits

Standerton Workshop photographs by Thamsanqa Minga, courtesy of MINGAATWORK (Pty) Ltd.

Archival Footage:
Mapungubwe Prototype Work Group (AFRI, 2024), part of New Patterns — Closing the Fold.

Community Archive Reference:
Project 1520 / Made in Daveyton, founded by Bongani Tau
@daveyton1520 | www.madeindaveyton.co.za

New Patterns — Closing the Fold is supported by the National Arts Council and presented by the African Fashion Research Institute.

#BehindThePattern #NewPatterns #AfricanArchives #DecolonialPedagogy #FashionAsMemory #AFRIDigital #KnowledgeInMotion by @weavetek

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10 months ago

BEHIND-THE-PATTERN Series

Behind-the-Pattern is AFRI’s new conversational archive tracing the ideas, memory-work and experiments that shaped New Patterns. Produced by Siviwe James within the New Patterns project, the series brings reflective, behind-the-scenes dialogue into the public archive.

Across three episodes, members of the AFRI community return to the workshops, field notes and lived histories that seeded the project’s methodology.

Episode 1: Scott Williams & Dr Erica de Greef
In this opening dialogue, Scott and Erica revisit the conceptual beginnings of New Patterns — from early non-formal pedagogy experiments to the fieldwork sites that shaped the curriculum’s DNA.
They trace how Daveyton’s style genealogies, Mapungubwe’s fragment histories and Durban’s barkcloth cosmologies shifted the project from documentation toward a living curriculum rooted in African experience.

Premiers Friday 12 December at 12pm on YouTube.
Set a reminder, subscribe, and step into the archive with us.

🔗 Link in bio

New Patterns — Closing the Fold is supported by the National Arts Council and presented by the African Fashion Research Institute.

#NewPatterns #BehindThePattern #DecolonialFashion #AFRIDigital #FashionArchivesAfrica by @weavetek

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2025 has been spurred on by ideas contained in a floating, spectral PhD proposal, my new job as Arts Education Lead and a return to analogue media. This year I was privileged enough to work on some physical zines alongside @nyakallomaleke_ , @berendjewillemina , and the curatorial collective of @museumher and @kim_gurney. Along with the recently initiated DRAWING club, these projects have been formative to the way I reflect, push paper and try to embed zines into ways, forms and vessels for teaching.

These zines of mine are becoming more and more ungovernable (ask @00.sj0090 about ungovernable 🤣 ) and making one of these notebook type things per week has plasticined the practice into curious shapes.

If you're interested in zine/notebooks that force you jump through hoops and panelbeat ideas then watch my feed for a drop or two.

#zines #bookness #micropublishing by @weavetek

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This weekend, I facilitated the "Something like an Archive" workshop that coincided with the "Tales of History Retold" exhibition. I'm grateful to the curators, @kim_gurney and @museumher for including me in this project. I think I'm finding a rhythm in my teaching practice. I enjoy the process of discussing visual art with others while creating space for them to share their perspectives on creativity. In this workshop, I focused mainly on prompts that would lead participants to unlock their own personal formula for zine content.

Through the case studies of my own practice alongside those of Burning Museum and @ilzewolff, participants were guided to extract principles for the construction of free-form archival reflections. I think of the workshops I run as dynamic spaces for co-learning, and this one was no different. I was able to find a new path, a new structure for working with zines, and I look forward to putting them to work. My practice is still very much in flux but I think there's some progress. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

Last photo courtesy of @the.soft.wall.archive by @weavetek

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a year ago

To Hold / To be Held, 2025.
Based on my zine 'African Hikikomori'.
(Available free on the website offcity.cz)

About returning to collage, about the work of our hands, about holding space.

She said I give away too much, so I'm keeping the caption short.

Love to @liamrvdhstudios for lending a hand.

#Wheatpaste #publicart #collage #southafricanartist #roguepraxis #rogueurbanism #publicactivation by @weavetek

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The Mapungubwe Prototype Group’s design sprint inspired an educational environment that harnessed a more poetic riffing on ideas around patterns and patternmaking in fashion as starting points for researching local fashion narratives. During the three-day design sprint in Giyani, Limpopo the collective’s members participated in walks, interviews, eating and sharing which culminated in creative material outputs that will be available for viewing on the AFRI platforms.

The outputs will feature contributions from:
@abengonigram
@patchandstitchsa
@sirlomeo
@weavetek
@sinazochiya

Keep following our research project on our platforms as it develops.

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The New Patterns: The Mapungubwe Prototype Group is both a learning programme and a pedagogical exercise funded by National Arts Council Arts Organisation Funding.

#NewPatterns #Mapungubwe #Limpopo #Johannesburg #sustainable #upcycling #practices #fashion #narratives #learning #programme #nationalartscouncil taken in Mapungubwe by @weavetek

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2 years ago

Alongside AFRI’s other projects:

The Mapungubwe Prototype Group came about as a continuation of AFRI’s continued commitment to mentorship of fashion practitioners and decolonial educational pedagogies.

With the name inspired by the region’s known history as the site for the first indigenous kingdom in Southern Africa between 900 and 1,300 AD, the Mapungubwe Prototype Group becomes a multi-disciplinary method for AFRI’s hybrid education methodologies. Conceptualised by Scott Eric Williams – previously a member of @burning_museum - the workshop acts as a prototype for organizing fashion learning, and the creation and initiation of business practices.

The Mapungubwe Prototype Group was initially set as a way of exploring how design can be fostered in local communities; by way of co-creation methods it aimed at piecing together historic fragments with contemporary needs to create a new coherent whole.
By gathering a group of scholars, historians, makers, and designers, the workshop invited them to explore how everyday knowledges can inform an African interpretation of Technical and Outdoor wear. Hosted over three days the research involved conversations with local cattle herders, where the team learnt about their navigation practices of the landscape, as well as drives through the Giyani area. A visit to the Muti wa Vatsonga Museum offered the workshop participants an opportunity reflect on the Tsonga archive of innovation.

Finally the workshop participants leveraged their mutual interests in streetwear, the archive & sustainable fashion praxis, exploring and experimenting with ideas of how People of Colour codify themselves through dress to enhance their access to public and natural spaces.”

Credit
All footage: @sirlomeo @abengonigram @weavetek
Repurposed fabric supplied by: @tcborgza

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The New Patterns: The Mapungubwe Prototype Group is both a learning programme and a pedagogical exercise funded by National Arts Council Arts Organisation Funding.

#NewPatterns #Mapungubwe #Limpopo #Johannesburg #sustainable #upcycling #practices #fashion #narratives #learning #programme #nationalartscouncil taken in Mapungubwe by @weavetek

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A visit to @texfad, Uganda. This that weavetek. #kampala #bananafibre #textileart #textileindustry #carpets #weaving #weavingpraxis #roguepedagogies by @weavetek

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Recently, I visited Limpopo as part of the output for my @afri_digital Fellowship. We were engaged in some of that ol' primary data collection and boys took a group shot just for control. Pictured here are three members of the Mapungubwe Prototype Group. More to follow.

L to R: @weavetek @sirlomeo @abengonigram

Pants: @yay_abe, T-shirt: @theabccollection X Slush, F.U. (n.d)

#fashionresearch #paulofreire #mentoring #nonformaleducation #limpopo #giyani #tsongakraal #textileart #gorpcore #techwear #outdoors #africanfashionarchive #africanfashionresearchinstitute taken in Tsonga Kraal..Muti Wa Vatsonga by @weavetek

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In the Pocket, Shoelace soft sculpture, 50 x 50 cm. 2023

In the pocket is an abstraction of the Rocklands and Westridge areas in Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town between Spine and Eisleben Roads. These two areas were formative in my personal life as well as the history of Hip Hop in Cape Town. As a child I crossed the border of Spine to attend school for a year in Westridge and in my adulthood I found myself in Burgundy Crescent, Westridge quite often. For many years, a public park alongside Burgundy Crescent would host Hip Hop Parkjams which are free, public hip hop events arranged by DJ’s, break-dancers, graffiti artists and MC’s. The electricity for the sound equipment for these events was provided by the late DJ Killa Bee (Anthony Vraagom) who would connect extension cords spanning the distance between his house and the park. The park on Cedar Road / Burgundy Crescent would become a meeting place for sharing of Hip Hop Culture with one of the communities that nurtured it.

'In the Pocket' is currently showing in the exhibition, JIVE, at @goethejoburg.

Curated by Seth Kriger
@anaestheticsilhouette

📸 @nicolevn.photography by @weavetek

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