The Mail & Guardian’s weekly round-up of the country’s hot-ticket events highlights these in Cape Town.
Artist Kendell Geers’s latest solo exhibition, AniMystikAKtivist, is described as “a meditation on the role of language in sculpting our perceptions of the world we live in”. The exhibition “recalls the activism of the young South African artist making his name in a full frontal attack against the conservatism of the apartheid institutions, but now fully developed into a transnational spiritual dimension”.
WHEN December 13 to January 17 WHERE Goodman Gallery, Cape Town INFO visit
Exhibit S: Ode to Saartjie Baartman by a Black South African Woman is a performance piece inspired by the misrepresentation, art and story of Saartjie Baartman, told by performer Thola Antamu. “This is her story fused with mine and told through speech, skin, and movement,” says Antamu. The 30-minute show will be on for only three performances and there will also be a Q&A session afterwards. See also related blog
WHEN December 15 to 17, 7pm WHERE Alexander Upstairs Theatre, Cape Town COST Tickets are R70/R60 prepaid online or at the bar INFO For bookings and enquiries call 021 300 1652
The music festival Sònar Cape Town, which hopes to expand electronic music in South Africa, is back. The line-up includes local names such as Fantasma, Spoek Mathambo, electro-rap duo PHFAT, Christian Tiger School and Fever Trails, as well as international acts the Bloody Beetroots and Jon Hopkins.
WHEN December 15 and 16 WHERE Good Hope Centre COST R495 (December 15) and R595 to R1 350 (December 16) INFO visit
Via Mail & Guardian
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