MY NAME IS

The performance explores the impact and urgency of knowledge transmission in discomfort. Using Live spoken words borrowed from the indigenous people of Southern Africa, Khoisan and Nguni Language, Wezile Harmans makes a reference to the tensions and disjunctures between formal and informal knowledge systems. This power struggle takes embodied form through the interplay of gestures, collective conversation and movements, which suggest that the tension between who gets to speak and who listens remains perpetually unresolved. In that process history and identity is distorted. 

By and with : Wezile Harmans 

Sonic: Mlondiwethu Dubazane 

Research: LEAD Project / LSE and SOAS

Poem: Imbali by Athambile Masola, published in ILIFA (uHlanga Press,2021)

Supported by Frankfurt Lab and KfW Stiftung.