The 2024 edition of Ghana’s largest annual street art festival, Chale Wote, is fast approaching, with preparations underway for the main event in August. As part of the warm-up process, the organisers, ACCRA [dot] ALT, in collaboration with Redd Kat Pictures and Chale Wote Street Art Projekt, have opened applications for artists interested in joining the celebration this year. The thirteenth edition is themed “And Now An End To The Empire Of Horrors,” drawing inspiration from some of Africa’s deepest history that lies in the Gulf of Guinea.
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Chale Wote 2024 will explore the history of the place through its origins and an examination of its death and the current rebirth of its sacred sciences, long forgotten and buried with the giants. The event will curate a multiplicity of counterhegemonic narratives about this rebirth in their most spectacular form through art and entertainment. This year’s theme aims to artistically focus on the tales of the fantastic and mortal gods from the Gulf of Guinea, which can be understood as allegories illustrating the social conditions created by genocidal squatter colonialism.
Interested artists are encouraged to send in their applications now. The call is open to all experienced artists who have been professionally active for at least two years and have a visible commitment to their professional artistic practice and media. Applications are welcome from both formally trained and self-taught professional artists with at least two years of constant working experience. Proposed artwork can be realized in any medium, with no restrictions on form or content, but proposals that demonstrate innovation and a deep, nuanced understanding of contemporary art, craft, or design are preferred. The proposals must be site-specific for the Osu metropolitan area during CHALE WOTE 2024.
