Watch an excerpt of the performance
Kopano Maroga guides us through the reverberant soundscape and rich imagery of Jesus Thesis, and considers how their spiritual background, study of comparative mythology, and reading of Saidiya Hartman’s concept of 'critical fabulation' shaped and inspired the making of the work.
About Kopano Maroga
Kopano Maroga is a performance artist, author, cultural worker and co-founder of the art organisation ANY BODY ZINE. Maroga lives in Brussels, Belgium and works as a curator and guest dramaturge at the Kunstencentrum Vooruit in Ghent, Belgium. Maroga’s debut volume of poetry Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations was published by uHlanga Press in 2020. Maroga believes in the power of love as a 'weapon of mass construction'.
