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18.08.2017/Subjecttochange
Programme|Thursday24August
Venue|A4ArtsFoundation,23BuitenkantStreet
17:30 Refreshments
18:00 WELCOMEandINTRODUCTORYREMARKS:JayPather,HarryGaruba,NkuleMabaso
18:15 KEYNOTE:DesireeLewis
CulturalStudiesinSouthAfrica:InSearchofaThirdSpace
WhathavetheintellectualanddiscursiveinfluencesonSouthAfricanculturalstudiesentailed,andwhathavetheybothopenedupanddrownedout?CritiquingSouthAfricanacademics’preoccupationwithbiographiesofcultural studies in the country, this talk presents a positioned critical reflection of trends in South Africanculturalstudies.Itfocusesonresponsestorace,gender,sexualityandneo-liberalism,consideringhowthequestfora“thirdspace”hasoftenbeencompromisedbylaudatoryideasabout“post-apartheid”,orbyossifyingrace,gender and sexuality. The talk reflects on the salient influence of certain approaches within British culturalstudies(associatedwithscholarssuchasJohnFiske,forexample),raisingtheliberatingpotentialforexploringathirdspacewithreferenceinsteadtothinkerssuchasStuartHall.
19:00 KEYNOTE:HloniphaMokoena
Headspace/Heartspace:ArtandtheArchives
ThispaperexploreshowarthasinformedMokoena’sworkasabiographer/socialscientist/intellectualhistorian.It begins with the paintings produced by young Zulu students at a mission school in Ekukhanyeni,Pietermaritzburginthe1850sandendswithTheNightWatchpaintingbyRembrandtvanRijn.
19:45 Refreshments
MUSICbyRobertMachiri
20:30 ShuttletoHiddinghCampus(asneeded)
21:00 PERFORMANCE:WombofFire
Venue:P4Studio,HiddinghCampus
In2000,RehaneAbrahamsandSaraMatchettmadeWhattheWaterGaveMe,theproductionthatlaunchedThe Mothertongue Project. Seventeen years later they are collaborating onWomb of Fire. The productionweavesthestoriesofthreewomen,DraupadifromtheIndianEpic,TheMahabarata;Catrijn(1631-1682),thefirstrecordedfemaleconvictslavebanishedtotheDutch-occupiedCapeofGoodHope,andZara(1648-1671),aKhoikhoiwomanbornintheCapeandemployedasaservantfromayoungage.Thecatalystforthetextsprangfrom Abrahams’ investigation into her motherline and the Khoikhoi mDNA that roots her to South Africanbeginnings.TheseedforthisproductionwasplantedinManipur,whereAbrahamsandMatchettwerevisiting
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KalakshetraManipurtheatrecompany.ThecompulsiontomakeanewworkalsocameoutofMatchett’sPhDresearch,whichexploresthebodyasasiteforgeneratingimagesforperformancemaking.
WhattheWaterGaveMetracesAbrahams’paternalline,andWombofFirehermaternalline.AbrahamsandMatchettseethisasthebeginningofalargerbodyofworkthatresearchesthetransmigrationofsoulsandhowancestralmemoriesliveinthebodiesofthosewhofollow.
ConceptualisedbyRehaneAbrahamsandSaraMatchett
WrittenandperformedbyRehaneAbrahams
DirectedbySaraMatchett
DesignedbyCraigLeo
Sonic-scapebyLukhanyisoSkosana
ProducedbyTheMothertongueProject
22:00 ENDS
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Programme|Friday25AugustVenue|A4ArtsFoundation,23BuitenkantStreet
09:00 Tea/Coffee|Registration
09:30 Respondents
ZimitriErasmusandLwaziLushabarespondtoKeynotesbyDesireeLewisandHloniphaMokenaandSaleemBadat’spaper:Trepidation,longing,andbelonging:LiberatingthecurriculumatuniversitiesinSouthAfrica.
10:15 PANEL:InstitutionI
AdamHaupt:PossessiveInvestmentsinWhitenessataPost-ApartheidUniversity
HannahClager:RethinkingArtisticPatronageandInstitutionalPoliticsintheWakeofthe2011ArabSpringinMorocco:ACaseStudyoftheMuséeMohammedVIArtModerne&Contemporain
UnathiKondile:MeaninglessMemory:ImagingtheSelfwiththeTongueofanOther
11:00 Tea
11:30 PANEL:InstitutionII
BrianKamanzi:“MustFall”:RevisitingtheRoleoftheUniversityandtheCallsforDecolonisation
Umhlangano:TheroleandpositionofWomxnwithinthedecolonialproject
#RhodesMustFall:SandileNdelufromtheTransUniversityForum.
12:15 ROUNDTABLEDISCUSSIONS
13:30 Lunch
14:30 PANEL:ArtPractice|Curriculum
DavidAndrewandJyotiMistry:ArtSearch:PunchandJudy,PavementsandPonziSchemes
ZenMarie:TheParadoxoftheArtSchoolinaUniversity.
KhweziMkhize:PracticesofFreedom:ReflectionsonDe-commodifiedLabour–theValueoftheCreativeProcessasaFormofLabourthatResistsCommodification
MandlaMbothweandJayPather:IYAZIKA…Itssinking/SearchingforHealing
16:00 Tea/Coffee|ROUNDTABLEDISCUSSIONS
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17:20 INTRODUCTIONtoexhibitionandperformance:JyotiMistryandNomcebisiMoyikwa
17:30 BREAK
ShuttletoHiddinghCampus(asneeded)
19:00 Refreshments
19:15 EXHIBITIONOPENING:WhenIgrowupIwanttobeablackman,amultimediainstallationbyJyotiMistry
Venue:MichaelisGalleries
Ablackmanrunsthroughafield.
Ablackmanrunsonthebeach.
Ablackmanrunsthroughacity.
Theblackmaninalwaysrunning,heisalwayschased,heisalwaysrunning…
Runningtosavehislife.
ThisdiptychusesarchivalfootagefromtheEYEFilmMuseumandtheGDRFilmDerkleineKuno(1959)tocreatetwonarratives.Thenarrativeofthecolonialpastisframedthroughthealphabetofviolencewhichiscontrastedwiththealphabetoffreedom.Usingcinematicstrategieswithnewlyfilmedfootage,thetwoscreenscreateanopportunitytoreflectonhowimagesmightbedecolonisedtoimagineafutureinwhichblackmasculinitymightberedefined.
JyotiMistryhascreatedWhenIgrowupIwanttobeablackmanaspartofherArtistinResidencyattheNetherlandsFilmAcademyandtheMasterofArtisticResearchinandthroughCinema.
20:00 PERFORMANCE:Qash-Qash,byNomcebisiMoyikwa
Venue:P4Studio,HiddinghCampus
Everything follows from this principle: that the black subject is not to be reduced to a simple – resisting,reactionary – subject, but rather that we hear in her what is “unreal”, calling attention to modes of blackarticulacypreviouslyoverlooked.Thenecessity forQash-Qash is to found in the followingconsideration: thatthe black subject’s discourse is today one of extreme displacement. This discourse is spoken, perhaps, bythousandsofsubjects,butwarrantedbyless;itiscompletelyabandonedbythesurroundinglanguages:ignored,disparaged,ordecidedby them,severednotonly fromauthoritybutalso fromthemechanismsofauthority.Onceadiscourse is thusdrivenby itsownmomentumintothebackwaterof the“unreal”,exiledfromall thegregarity, ithasnorecoursebut tobecomethesite,however thin,ofaconfirmation.Thatconfirmation is, inshort,thesubjectofQash-Qash.
Technicalteam:MlondiDubazane,TobiasNgomane,LebogangFischerandAshwinMay.
21:00 ENDS
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Programme|Saturday26August Venue|A4ArtsFoundation,23BuitenkantStreet
09:00 Tea/Coffee|Registration
09:30 PANEL:Decolonisation&Decoloniality:TriggerorOpportunity?
ApaneldiscussionbytheUCTCurriculumChangeWorkingGroup(CCWG):ElelwaniRamugondo,KasturiBehari-Leak,DenverHendricks,GoitsioneMokou,ThandoMcunu,HarshaKathard,Amanda-PetraBarrattandHarryGaruba.
TheCCWGwill share its journeyofengagingmembersof theUCTcommunityondecolonising thecurriculumduring2016-2017.Whilethisprocesswasaimedatfacilitatingauniversity-widedialogue,spaceswhichinvitedthe CCWG engagements were at times expected, and in other instances completely unimagined. Theseengagements have in many ways exposed the soul and occupied the body. Many have been triggered,implicatedorvindicated.QuestionstobeaskedofapublicuniversityinAfrica,disciplinesandcurriculaprovedurgent.
11:00 PANEL:DisciplinePerspectivesI
FineArt:BerniSearleandmembersoftheDepartmentofFineArt
Dance:LisaWilson&MaxwellXolaniRani:UntrappingtheTeachingandLearningofAfricanDanceinHigherEducationDanceStudies
UrbanStudies:RikeSitas:Publics,PoliticsandPedagogyinUrbanStudies
Music:RebekkaSandmeierandmembersoftheSACollegeofMusic
12:00 PERFORMANCE:Reimagining“TheNativeWhoCausedAlltheTrouble”
DirectorNwabisaPlaatjiereimaginesTheNativeWhoCausedAlltheTroublewhichwasfirstpresentedattheMarketTheatrein1983,writtenbyDannyKeogh,FinkHaysomandVanessaCooke.Theplaywasbasedonatruestorythattookplacein1937whenadeeplyreligiousmanwhogotevictedfromhislandrefusedtoleavebecausehebelievedthatalllandbelongstoGodandcannotbeownedbyanyonemanorrace.Thisadaptationstartstoengagewithlandnotonlyasaphysicallandscapebutalsoassomethingembodiedandgendered.
Cast:FaniswaYisa,DuaneBehrens,NomakrestuXakathugaga,KaiLukeBrummerandAneleKose.
Technicalsupport:BuntoTyali.
ThisworkwascreatedwiththesupportofTheTheatreArtsAdminCollectiveEmergingTheatreDirector'sBursary.
12:45 PERFORMANCE:ListeningtoalisteningatPungwe,aconversationbetweenMemoryBiwaandRobertMachiri
BiwaandMachiriperformthroughanexperimentalplatform,“PungweNights”,totrackandreimaginetransnationalsonicculturesinsouthernAfrica.Theyre(hear)sehistoricalandcontemporaryrecordingsbetweenNamibiaandZimbabweonareel-to-reelplayer,turntablesandcomputer.Theirpracticewithsoundtechnology
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hasparallelcurrents.WhilstitdrawsonresearchontheuseofAfricanbodiesinphoneticexperimentsincoloniallinguistsandethnomusicologyitexplorestheconceptofthebodyassoundtechnologyandtranslationofvoicetovariousinstrumentsandviceversa.
13:15 Lunch
14:00 PANEL:DisciplinePerspectivesll
Film:Ian-MalcolmRijsdijk:DecolonisationandSouthAfricanFilmStudies:PedagogyandthePublicArchive
Theatre:MarkFleishmanandmembersoftheDramaDepartment
AppliedTheatre:VeronicaBaxter:Decolonising“High”Art
Music:MemoryBiwaandRobertMachiri:ListeningtoalisteningatPungwe,aconversationbetweenMemoryBiwaandRobertMachiri
15:00 COFFEEANDWORKSHOP
Themespresentedintoday’ssessions:WarrenNebeandmembersofDramaforLife
16:30 CLOSINGCOMMENTS:JayPather,JyotiMistry,NkuleMabaso
17:00 ENDS
TONOTE
ThemainsymposiumvenueisA4ArtsFoundationat23BuitenkantStreet,CapeTown
PerformancesandexhibitionsarehostedatHiddinghCampus,37OrangeStreet,CapeTown
Spaceislimitedandregistrationisthereforeessential.
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