Kholeka Shange

Creator

Kholeka Shange

Mme MaMotaung at Chicken farm informal settlement in 1985. (Santu Mofokeng Foundation)

AN AESTHETIC OF BLACKNESS STRANGE AND OPPOSITIONAL

An ‘aesthetic inheritance’: ugogo the [visual] griot

Refiguring ugogo as a critical figure in the making of Black [visual] archives

Kholeka Shange

‘Ukuzilanda’: The late Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson, seen at a Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (Nest) conference, noted that in South Africa English has been used as a language of power. Photo: courtesy Prof Jill Bradbury

BHEKIZIZWE PETERSON

‘Speaking like falling’: Centring ukhoko’s tongue

Through her praxis, Kholeka Shange interrogates the marginalisation of African languages in the academy

Kholeka Shange

‘Tongues of their mothers’: The story of Princess
Magogo, playing ugubhu. (Supplied)

‘Ngibambeni, ngibambeni bomama!’ Refiguring Princess Magogo

The official historiography of Princess Magogo misses the nuances and influences of the many women in her life

Kholeka Shange

Jefferson Tshabalala leans on a Kippie Moeketsi statue near Kippies, in Newtown, where he held a series of theatrical interventions titled Ama-Piece-Piece-Nyana. (Mlungisi Mlungwana)

AMA PIECE PIECE NYANA

Thath’i sgubhu usfak’ es’ketchini: (Re)making theatre with Jefferson Tshabalala

J Bobs masterfully dismantles the highbrow/lowbrow binary in his theatre-making practice

Kholeka Shange

Chasing Shadows: Shebeen. (Copyright Santu Mofokeng Foundation, courtesy Lunetta Bartz MAKER )

ART EXHIBITIONS

Sixosh’ abathakathi: Ukuthwebula and the photographic image

Reimagining image making through concepts found in isiZulu

Kholeka Shange