Events are on a first come, first served basis.
Onyeka Igwe’s 2019 film “the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered” explores the legacy of the artist’s grandfather, who is depicted, in an famous Igbo novel, performing a ritual to atone for his employer’s descretion of the land.
In this workshop Onyeka will detail the several methods undertaken in the film to rework archival images leading an exercise incorporating Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening as a starting point.
Iswanto Hartono and Reza Afisina of Jakarta-based collective ruangrupa will lead this open conversation-workshop with MRes Art: Exhibition Studies students. ‘Lumbung’ is the Indonesian word for a communal rice-barn, where the surplus harvest is stored for the community, and was the core idea for ruangrupa’s organisation of documenta 15 (2022).
Mishkah Abrahams is carrying out an MA in visual arts at the University of Stellenbosch, entitled ‘Towards Hybrid Representation: Exploring Co-Design as Part of Post-Colonial Archival Practise’. In her work, she considers the entanglement of food and its attendant rituals as vectors of identity and memory. This involves collaborative making, liberatory memory work and creating a community-based archive.
Gratia Ilibagiza is a postgraduate student in Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University, as well as a Rwandan traditional dancer, educational facilitator, and creative. Her thesis, entitled ‘Song, Dance and Performance in Rwandan Impunzi Cultural Dance Groups explores questions of identity, belonging and embodiment amongst Rwandan refugees living in exile – in South Africa – through the lens of cultural dance and performance.
Join MRes Art: Moving Image year 2 students for a screening of their current practice-led research projects. The screening will engage with a range of themes and practices, including cell-animation, folklore, retrospective boredom, Japanese puppet theatre and the queering of music video culture.
An open-format workshop where people can engage in conversations on the relationship between AI ethics and queer and feminist practice. Work produced in the workshops will be used to build a dataset to train a natural language processing model which will produce its own response to questions.
A collective artwork constituted of multiple objects made over a 24-hour period by BA Fine Art Stage 1. ‘Matterstuffthing’ is a response to questions around value, waste, utility, wonder and making art in the age of the Anthropocene.
Dalia Halwani presents a fake cake feast to celebrate the end of the Food Bank STILL Life
Reading from her essay ‘Global Ghost Map’, recently published in Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life, Eggebert reflects on how drawing might engage us in a subjective connection to elsewhere. Openness to visualising the patterns unfolding during times of pandemic and ecological crises are proposed as means of moving towards a different understanding of Planetary Health – that all life, both local and distant, matters.
Closing conversation with Afterall and Jacob Bullen.