ST2020 | Creative Dialogues

Talks Programme

Taking on the theme of the Triennale, ‘Tomorrow There Will Be More Of Us’, the creative dialogues centre imagination as a revolutionary act and invite cultural producers from multiple locations and forms of ‘knowledges’ to speak and engage from their fields of expertise with threads from the core theme in vibrant talks, panels, seminars, enactments and workshops. The creative dialogues forum brings together an exciting mix of artists, curators, creatives, academics, designers, advertisers and thought leaders to engage with audiences is discussions that probe us to ask different questions in relation to the making, un-making and re-making of Africa and our collective futures.

Creative Dialogues at the Stellenbosch Triennale are essentially a public school for collective creative and critical thinking. It is here we imagine. Imagination in this sense points towards the individual and collective acts of forming new ideas and concepts whilst asking different questions and speculating on future scenarios. In imagining ourselves anew, can we use creativity as a tool to transcend, transform and think of new norms? In the making, un-making and re-making of Africa and our collective futures, why is imagination critical? What do institutions of the future look like? How is rememoration a compass for post-colonial creative practices and speculations? The dialogues are a platform for the production and circulation of ideas, experimentation, debate, communication, critique and reviewing art practices.

Curator: Mike Tigere Mavura and Silas Miami

Various locations throughout Stellenbosch

Creative Dialogues will take place over two sessions during the course of the Triennale:

Session one: 13-15 February 2020
Session two: 17-18 April 2020

Programme | Session One

13th February

Imagination as Revolutionary Practice: Institutions

1 pm - 2 pm	Topic: Imagination as Revolutionary Practice in relation to Institutions Panellists: Tandazani Dhlakama in conversation with Ibrahim Mahama and Selom Koffi Kudjie
2 pm - 2:20 pm	Q&A
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Topic: Institutions as `Sites of Experiments, Emancipatory Practices and Futuring. Panelists: Ukhona Mlandu, & Nisha Von Carnap, ASAFO collective Moderator: Saziso Phiri
3:30 pm - 4 pm	Q & A

14 February

Imagination as Revolutionary Practice: Concepts of Freedom

1 pm - 2 pm	Topic: Imagination as Revolutionary Practice: Gestures, Intimacy & Spirituality. Panelists: Sethembile Msezane, Tracey Thompson & Victor Ekhmanahor Moderator: Vicky Lekone
2 pm - 2:20 pm	Q& A A & A
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Topic: Concepts of Freedom Panellists: Sunny Dolat, Athi-Patra Ruga and Rehema Chachage Moderator: Silas Miami
3:30pm-4pm	Q & A

15 February

Imagination as Revolutionary Practice: Archives and Futuring in Collaboration with Africa Open Institute

1 pm - 2 pm	Topic: Sounding and Reading Freedom Robert Machiri, Tinashe Mushakavanhu and Lizabé Lambrechts
2 pm - 2:20 pm	Q & A
2:30 pm - 4 pm	PUNGWE / Reading Zimbabwe Performance.

In partnership with the Stellenbosch Academy of Design And Photography