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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)
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Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, Johannesburg
- Part of series: ‘If These Walls Could Talk, They’d Probably Still Ignore Me’
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.
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.
Location
Goethe-Institut Johannesburg
119 Jan Smuts Avenue Parkwood
Johannesburg
2193
South Africa
119 Jan Smuts Avenue Parkwood
Johannesburg
2193
South Africa
Location
Goethe-Institut Johannesburg
119 Jan Smuts Avenue Parkwood
Johannesburg
2193
South Africa
119 Jan Smuts Avenue Parkwood
Johannesburg
2193
South Africa