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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.

Toregister,emailica@uct.ac.za

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