Lizamore & Associates | AFRIKA 3000

Time travel was invented in the year 2116, long after the Earth surpassed its tipping point, which saw humans finding new ways to live in uninhabitable conditions - both on Earth and in outer space. The Order of the Tiny Sun created a powerful device that
harvests transtemporal energies from Uranus and Neptune to enable them to travel through time in order to save all Earthly species from their impending doom.

The Order of the Tiny Sun first made contact with Earth in 2030.
They established a base in South Africa due to its geographical and astrological location – preying on our government who had
spiraled down an infinite pit of debt with promises of riches far beyond their belief. The South African government and the Order of the Tiny Sun signed a treaty relinquishing the land to the Order’s control. In return, South Africa was gifted the Ubuntu Tower as a sign of good faith, a monument showcasing technological wonders from the future as a promise of things to come.

In 2035 the Order constructed the Kalahari Signal Emitter (K-SE) tower. The structure appeared overnight.
The K-SE tower functioned as a super highway through space and time, powered by Hoop Earth energy harvested from Uranus and Neptune, and allowed the Order to transport vast amounts of souls and inanimate objects back and forth through time. This set off a series of events skyrocketing South Africa to becoming one of the richest and most powerful nations in the galaxy, burying the 4th industrial revolution in the ground and sparking the start of a 5th one. Our favourable weather conditions and fertile soil were used for cannabis farming, a scarce and very valuable commodity in the future, making South Africa the largest intergalactic exporter of products such as CBD oil and hemp steel. In order to keep up with demand, the Order constructed utopian socialist-like-state super cities known as the Neptshwane Federation – polarizing the nation. Frequent uprisings followed. As history always dictates the
future – great power always comes at a cost.

AFRIKA 3000 sees visual artists Koos van der Wat and Marnus Strydom team up to turn Van der Wat’s fictional world into an art
exhibition. A satirical play on current events in the form of a space opera, using painting and photography to exaggerate social,
political and environmental issues in a fantasy world.