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ST2025 | IMIZWA / Embodied Interventions

ST2025 | IMIZWA / Embodied Interventions

Oude Libertas

2025-02-19

What is the relation between body and site? What does it mean to intervene in a space charged with a history and a body marked with a history? How does architecture determine the tactile body as a site? What lies between the tremor of the earth and our lungs? How has our breath been disrupted, distorted, dislocated? Embodied interventions engage in how trans- indigenous collaborations can build infrastructures of dreaming that can sustain our capacity to breathe. We have been drawing passageways between indigenous peoples across African countries, Indonesia, Taiwan, Australia, Brazil and Colombia as an attempt to hold the wound of the land and the wound of the water whilst asking for iyeza – medicine. The embodied interventions take the form of site-specific constellations, interactive installations, offerings and happenings that position the body as a somatic conjunction.

Participating Artists

Tuli Mekondjo

Tuli Mekondjo

Namibia

B. 1982

Nandele Maguni

Nandele Maguni

Mozambique

B. 1981

Aline Motta

Aline Motta

Brazil

B. 1974

Featured Artworks

To Read a book backwards

To Read a book backwards

Simphiwe Buthelezi

2025

Installation

Eshina Lyo Ku Topa Topa/Typewriter

Eshina Lyo Ku Topa Topa/Typewriter

Tuli Mekondjo

2025

Installation

Whisper of Mupangara

Whisper of Mupangara

Takunda Regis Billiat

2025

Installation

Drexciya & Hablar a plantas/Talk to plants

Drexciya & Hablar a plantas/Talk to plants

Astrid González

2025

Video Installation

Institutionalisation of the informal

Institutionalisation of the informal

Helen Zeru

2025

Installation

The Thin Line Between Life and Breath

The Thin Line Between Life and Breath

Nandele Maguni

2025

Sound Installation

“Towards our ancestors who lean towards us, with bent spines, trying to tell us where we are from, where we are going.”

“Towards our ancestors who lean towards us, with bent spines, trying to tell us where we are from, where we are going.”

Manyaku Mashilo

2025

Installation

Chumba

Chumba

Kasangati Godelive Kabena

2025

Installation

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