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4:00 PM-9:00 PM

If These Walls Could Talk, They’d Probably Still Ignore Me

Live performance|Shooting The Breeze Live With Mamabila Mageza (Dice)

‘If These Walls Could Talk, They’d Probably Still Ignore Me’ © Goethe-Institut

‘If These Walls Could Talk, They’d Probably Still Ignore Me’ © Goethe-Institut

Breeze Yoko in conversation with Mambila Mageza aka Dice Live while they sketch and answer questions from the audience.

Mambila Mageza (Dice) at Trackside in Soweto
A Soweto-based artist and cultural organiser, Mageza brings over a decade of experience in screen printing, which he deploys simultaneously as an artistic medium and a vehicle for cultural expression. In 2013, he founded Trackside Creative Studios (also known as Trackside Creative), thereby establishing an essential infrastructural hub for artistic production in Soweto. The interview explores the challenges and contradictions inherent in claiming physical and social space for creatives who deviate from dominant modes of cultural expression, as well as the relationship between screen printing, graffiti, and the politics of public spatial claim-making.

Live Performance
We are honoured to present a performance by Grandmaster Cap 2 from the legendary Basemental Platform (BMP) —pioneers of South African underground hip-hop and direct heirs to the very walls this exhibition celebrates. Emerging from Johannesburg's graffiti and street art scene, Grandmaster embodied the DIY ethos that turned the city's margins into a movement. Their performance will transform the Trackside into an extension of the street, proving that when walls refuse to stay silent, the whole city listens.