“There's a school of thought that says indigenous knowledges need to be protected. And what that often means or implies is that it has to be concealed, and not shared in any way with anyone. And I'm not sure I completely agree with that. I see and I totally understand and appreciate the need to conceal. But [I] also understand that one of the ways of preservation is to increase access to those knowledges...”
Artist and cultural producer Russel Hlongwane transports us to unexpected places in his speculative performance Ifu Elimnyama: The Dark Cloud, which draws on Zulu cosmology, folklore and systems of transcendence, and places them within a digital framework delivered through video, installation and a performance lecture. The work seamlessly merges myth, fact and fiction while proposing non-linearity and the displacement of hegemonic knowledge.
The ICA Podcast is a creation of the Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) at the University of Cape Town. Season 3 is hosted by Nkgopoleng Moloi, and 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/Season3.
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