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? Ritual in performance may offer possibilities for redressing and reconfiguring existing socio-cultural structures, but what are the politics of appropriation, and the ethical concerns that arise when ritual behaviour, healing and reparative work intersect with live art practices? This discussion navigates the limitations and possibilities when secular and sacred meet, and when the lines between audience and participants are blurred
