Second Hand Clothing is a trade that creates specific economic repercussions between the ''global North'' and the ''global South''. It also tells a lot about cultures of surplus and needs, of waste and recycling, of aid and dependency.
The exhibition “The Hand That Feeds You – Fumbatha Khangeza” at the Durban Workshop Amphitheatre will create an opportunity to visualise these aspects with communities engaged in Second Hand Trade. Using a Durban visual language and installation pieces, the workshop Amphitheatre will act as a canvass upon which to think through trade and self-reliance.
The opening will also feature an extended public reading of the work, Ifu Elimnyama: The Dark Cloud, a project that takes indigenous systems of transcendence and places them in a digital framework. The work currently exists in a filmic format and will now be presented as an extended critical text.
The exhibition was conceived by the creative tandem thirdspace, consisting of Joao Roxo (Maputo) and Russel Hlongwane (Durban).
It is part of Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS), a multi-disciplinary roving project space. The programme supports work realised all over South Africa.
The exhibition details are;
Venue: Workshop Amphitheatre, 99 Samora Machel Street.
Date: 28 November 2019
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Ifu Elimnyama Public Reading;
Venue: The Chairman, 146 Mahatma Gandhi Road.
Date: 29 November 2019
Time: 19:00 – 20:30
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