A space for conversation about the nuanced forms, dynamics and functions of power in creative and cultural sectors in South Africa.
Much like many other cities, the spatial arrangements defy strict binaries between the formal and informal, and users of city space shape what forms in sense of culture. This is also notwithstanding the power that not only locates power, value and property as operate and continues to structure material and affective senses of space, culture and art practice. There is a sense of troubling the effects of various disciplinary formations and where or how they put in place sensibilities that are embedded in our publics about the proper subject of politics that we connect along with also perhaps what sits a subtle comment on some of the more authoritative orientations particularly embedded in visual histories, and continued practice that might be more apparent in who, and how the set of conversations are shaped in this programme.
14 Septemper
18H00 - Practices of Repair
@THE POINT OF ORDER, Corner Bertha and, Stiemens, St, Johannesburg, 2000
Hosted in collaboration with The Point of Order (TPO), Practices of Repair operates as a framing device for the Johannesburg programme of Power Talks.
15 September
10H00 - Exhaustion
@LAPA, 29 Chiswick Street, Brixton, 2019, Johannesburg
A conversation with Tammy Langtry, Tiffany Ebrahim, Dee Marco, and Naadira Patel, exploring questions of working with, in proximity to, against or through institutional bodies.
12H30 Lunch, Food by Lady Day
14H00 Zine Workshop with INVADECollective
Following the panel the zine making workshop will be a pace and moment to respond and reflect in more embodied ways to question and engage ideas arising from the morning conversation.
16 September
10H00 AM - CARE
@THE LIBRARY OF THINGS WE FORGOT TO REMEMBER, 44 Stanley Ave, Braamfontein Werf, Johannesburg
The conversation here draws on Care as a set of conditions, relations, registers and practices from which to engage with difficult territories of discussion, engagement and accountability.
12H30 Lunch
14H00 - Sift… A Look into Trauma Release as an Active Decolonisation Process
Your body carries programming that works against what you are fighting for. This is your undoing. We cannot build a world using the very mechanisms that were used to create the one we have fighting to destroy.
17 September
10H00 - “Loss, and the Silent Room” in collaboration with WINDYBROW ARTS CENTRE.
@WINDYBROW ARTS CENTRE, Corner Nugget and PietersenStreets, Doornfontein 2000,Johannesburg
We open the final day of the programme with a sharing of performances reflecting on how we construct grief and engage repair, and what we find or do not find in healing.
15H00 - Programme Closing
@THE FORGE, 87 De Korte Street, Braamfontein, 2001, Johannesburg
Buntu Fihla, Ms G
19H00- The Wretched
Gabi Motuba, Tumi Mogorosi, Andrei Van Wyk and Zen Marie. We close the Johannesburg programme on the evening of the 17th with a reflection by Power Talks Eastern Cape Curator, Buntu Fihla, a closing discussion with the audience,
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