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How do Live Artists see, think, listen, respond and create? The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) at the University of Cape Town dives into this question via long-form interviews with South African artists and curators who perform or curate Live Art. Join us on site and in studio as we explore ground-breaking performances, public interventions and participatory installations – and the fascinating minds that bring them into being.
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Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
“For me, the process of research doesn’t stop because I’m performing. I am still that whirlwind. My pores are still wide open for information.”
In today's episode, we accompany artist and activist Chuma Sopotela to the venue where her 2018 work Untitled was first performed, and then to the recording studio to discuss the influences and inspirations of her early career, her introduction to live art in 2007, and her seminal work Inkukhu Ibeke Iqanda. With academic and practitioner Lieketso Mohoto-wa Thaluki, ICA Director Jay Pather, and Sopotela herself, we think through the tension between a cerebral and visceral experience of Sopotela’s performances, and why the failure of language to hold her work might offer productive possibilities.
Lieketso Mohoto-wa Thaluki’s chapter ‘Corporeal HerStories: Navigating Meaning in Chuma Sopotela’s Inkukhu Ibeke Iqanda through the Artist’s Words’ appears in the edited collection Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa published by Wits University Press.
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The ICA Podcast is a creation of the Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) at the University of Cape Town. Produced and edited by Catherine Boulle.
Read more about the ICA and the vision for the podcast: http://www.ica.uct.ac.za/ica/podcast/abouttheicapodcast.
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