Ho tshepa ntshepedi ya bontshepe. RECLAMATIONS begins and ends. The first image in the sequence is of a child body, dressed in pink. The last image is of child who stands inside a yellow room
‘PHOTOGRAPHING TAVERNS’: THE Q & A THEMBINKOSI HLATSWAYO & RUTH MOTAU[spacer height=”40px”] Thembinkosi Hlatswayo (b.1993) and Ruth Motau (b.1968) pose questions to one another about their respective experiences as photographers who developed work within ‘tavern’ or ‘shebeen’ contexts. Motau is a veteran South African photojournalist, who as a woman during the 1990s, ventured into Dobsonville Hostel, open to see where her camera would take her, only to discover a shebeen. Hlatswayo is of a younger generation and approached shebeens from […]
A Piece of Ground is a complication of South African music inspired by Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s Slaghuis II. The selection resonates like a vision of bodies and spirits gathered in the same room, sometimes at odds with each other, yet always held by a shared wound. Assembled at the Slaghuis, the bodies and spirits pray, laugh, scream, cry and shout. As they fix their mouths to speak, so the music begins. 1. A Piece of Ground Miriam Makeba Pata Pata, 1967 […]
Slaghuis II: A Sonic Debrief, is a conversation that highlights sound as a motif. Mosa Anita Kaiser, a content generator for Photoform Africa converses with Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo on the intimate stories and memories that inform ‘Slaghuis’. [spacer height=”1px”] In addition this audio features the full length performance of Slaghuis II: Performing the artist statement, as performed by Chris Djuma. [spacer height=”1px”] The conversation goes further into unpacking symbolisms and references behind this text as told by Hlatshwayo.[spacer height=”1px”] This audio […]
Slaghuis II; Performing the artist statement. Slaghuis II, the exhibition, features a statement from Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo, which narrates a scene, perhaps a dream–possibly a nightmare–that occurs before his eyes. Hlatshwayo shared the text with Market Theatre Laboratory alumni, Chris Djuma who adapted the text and performed it at the first Slaguis II public walkabout on the 14th of March 2020.[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Biography of Chris Djuma Chris Djuma is an actor, writer, director and theatre maker who happens to be a third culture kid, […]