writing for the eye writing for the ear

writing for the eye, writing for the ear, Season 3, Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg
11-14 April 2018

Gabrielle Goliath
Danger Gevaar Ingozi (Chad Cordeiro & Nathaniel Sheppard), Simnikiwe Buhlungu
Andrei van Wyk (Healer Oran), Abri de Swardt
Lebogang Kganye
Dion Monti
Sello Pesa and Ntsoana Dance, Gretchen Blegen
Malose Malahlela

Joining Room and Nothing to Commit Records are two (non) spaces for experimentation and collaboration that seek the processual and liminal. The first experimental Joining Room/Nothing to Commit Recods platform will inhabit the Centre for the Less Good Idea under the title, writing for the eye, writing for the ear. For Season 3, the curators, Bettina Malcomess and Bhavisha Panchia bring together a group of artistic practitioners, mu- sicians and perfomers to produce a series of works across the sonic and the visual.

writing for the eye, writing for the ear focuses on the interplay between sonic, visual and gestural forms located in di ering narrative devices and sensibilities. The end point will be a series of experiential, intermedial, durational works playing with the staging of narrative and performative pieces, while working with a range of audio and visual registers.

Working with Gabrielle Goliath, Danger Gevaar Ingozi (Chad Cordeiro & Nathaniel Sheppard), Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Andrei van Wyk (Healer Oran) Lebogang Kganye, Abri de Swardt, Dion Monti, Sello Pesa and Ntsoana Dance, Gretchen Blegen and Malose Malahlela, writing for the eye, writing for the ear will test out ‘stagings’ of various collaborative and individual constellations while also providing critical reflections on historicity, spati- ality and performativity. These musicians, performers and artists consider the encounter with multiple pasts and presents as mediated through technologies of transmission and reproduction, from the digital to the analogue.

Photos:Zivanai Matangi