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Ritual

Pefromance

Albert Khoza

Take in, Take Out

Take in Take out (to live is to be sick to die is to live) has at its centre the ‘take in take out’ system – a traditional holistic practice of healing the body that makes use of indigenous plants. Not a performance so much as an offering of himself and the traditions of his ancestors, Khoza shares this healing practice in an exploration of death, disease and sickness.

Performance

Khanyisile
Mbongwa

Umnikelo Oshisiwe (A Burnt Offering)  ICA Launch  2016

essay

KatLieketso Dee Mohoto-wa Thaluki

Acts of Transgression edited by Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle 2019.

Corporeal HerStories: Navigating Meaning in Chuma Sopotela’s Inkukhu Ibeke Iqanda through the Artist’s Words

PERFOMANCE

Kresiah Mukwazhi

Zvisaririra

Panel Discussion

‘rights’ to ritual

A conversation with Albert Ibokwe Khoza, Buhlebezwe Siwani and Nkosenathi Koela, moderated by Kefiloe Siwisa.

How does the embodied practice of ritual and ceremonial semiotics translate into the realm of performance?

Perfomance

Buhlebezwe Siwani

Ngisacela uk’thula 

Ngisacela uk’thula is related to the healing of spaces that the indigenous people of Southern Africa occupy, and how they are allowed to practice in spaces thatcontinue to haunt them

Performance

After
Tears

by Christian Etongo

Podcast

Nkosenathi Koela

ukuNqula kukuThandaza

Koela reflects on his transportive 2022 musical performance ukuNqula kukuThandaza, which meditates on practices of prayer through sound. Focusing on the vibrational power of words, chanting and incantation, Koela explored healing practices, indigenous music therapies and ritual making.

perfomance

The Dance
of the
Rubber Tree

The sound performance Ondaanisa yo Pomudhime (The Dance of the Rubber Tree) is the culmination of Mushaandja’s long-term research on restitution.

Public Lecture

Yonela
Makoba

Ritual Study Of The Conservation Of Energy ICA Live Art Festival 2024

essay

Alan Parker

Effigy in the Archive: Ritualising Performance and the Dead in Contemporary South African

Live Art Practice 243: Acts of Transgression edited by Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle  2019.