Enjoy a special screening of the film “A Normal Daughter: The Life and Times of Kewpie of District Six” directed by Jack Lewis. The film speaks to the exhibition “Practices of Self-Fashioning”, curated by Nkgopoleng Moloi, currently on show at the Goethe-Institut gallery. Drinks and snacks will be provided!
Practices of Self-Fashioning draws on theories of movement and queer theory to explore the relationship that queer-identifying people have with space and movement within the urban landscape. The nexus of the inquiry is the Kewpie Collection —the personal photographic archive of Kewpie, a hairdresser and performer who lived in Cape Town's District Six —housed at the GALA Queer Archive in Johannesburg. The project considers space and movement through the lens of “making oneself”— taking seriously tools, methods and practices wielded to allow oneself more freedom to move, to survive, to be. By engaging the archive Practices of Self-Fashioning gestures at the larger project of excavating historical memory within a society characterized by contestations of cultural memory.
Practices of Self-Fashioning is presented by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg as part of its Young Curators Incubator 2022 programme, in partnership with the History of Art Department at the Wits School of the Arts:
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