Buhlebezwe Siwani
Izwe / Umhlaba / Ngimhlophe
Nominated for the ZKB Audience Prize 2016
Nominated for the ZKB Acknowledgement Prize 2016
Black women in South Africa are subjected to racism, violence and exclusion especially when they are sangomas, traditional healers. The young artist and performer Buhlebezwe Siwani is a black woman, and she is a sangoma. In her video performance she tells of the difficulties of following her vocation as a sangoma, of connecting with her ancestors and pre-colonial history and of the present situation in post-colonial South Africa where all linkages with the past are suspect. The title of her work she devises during a residency in the Rote Fabrik translates «The Nation / The Land / The Seer». (esc)
Shows
shows from today- Th 25.08. 21:30 - 22:30 CHF 13.-
- Fr 26.08. 21:30 - 22:30 CHF 13.-
- Sa 27.08. 21:30 - 22:30 CHF 13.-