The Durban University of Technology’s Art for Humanity will present
their next workshop on August 6, 2019, from 12h00 to 14h00.
Titled Body Workshop: Bayeza, it
will be conducted by Khanyisile Mbongwa & Mntana Wexhwele.
The body explored as an archive of multi-dimensional existence where the
past, present and future are intersection of time - this evoking the body’s
ancestral memory whilst projecting into the imagined future.
The workshop presenters will use visual arts, African and ancient
sounds, movement as mediums to trace memory and imagination.
Khanyisile Mbongwa is a Cape Town based independent curator, award
winning artist and sociologist, who works with public space, interdisciplinary
and performative practices unpacking the socio-political, socio-economic,
socio-racial, gender-queer and historical-contemporary complexities and nuances
of the everyday. In 2018, she took up a curatorial research residency
CAT.Cologne, Germany focusing on the public sphere, interventions and public
policies. As a result curated BLUEPRINT:
Where There’s Nowhere To Go, Where Is Home?
Currently she works with Norval Foundation as Adjunct Curator for
Perfomative Practices and with Cape Town Carnival as Curatorial and
Socio-Critical Development advisor. Mbongwa is the Chief Curator of the
Stellenbosch Triennale.
Mntana.WeXhwele (Nkosenathi Ernie Koela) creates textures of music
embedded in African spirituality. Koela explores how healing practices through
sound creates space that manifests spiritually and materially. He unpacks the
power of traditional vibrations as a practical tool for empowering the soul’s
consciousness and physical health. This he does as testament to his ancestry,
the long line/s of traditional instrumentalists, diviners/ healers (amaGqirha
namaXhwele) that run in his family, who are in their own right, masters of
traditional Nguni music/heritage.
This event is made possible through a grant by the National Lotteries
Commission.
It will take place at the City Campus of the Durban University of
Technology.
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