Date & Time

18 March 22 - 19 March 22

10:00 AM - 18:00 PM

Friday 18 March: 10am – 6pm

Saturday 19 March: 10:30am – 6pm

Invocations #1 is a 2-day gathering of artists and thinkers within the framework of the research and upcoming exhibition project Indigo Waves and Other Stories, hosted by Zeitz MOCAA. Taking place on 18 and 19 March 2022, the invocations will include a special performative manifestation, JIEKER, by Thania Petersen, in collaboration with  The Young Men Sporting Club Malay Choir & Sautur-Rayhaan Nasheed Group will be presented on Friday 18 March 2022 in the Atrium bowl of the museum.

Conceived by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Natasha Ginwala with Michelangelo Corsaro, Indigo Waves and Other Stories is a multi-year, international research and exhibition project, produced and curated in collaboration with numerous institutions, including SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Vasl Artists’ Association, Karachi; Frans Hals Museum, Netherlands; Gropius Bau, Berlin and Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town amongst others.

The Indian Ocean is at the center of this project. It seeks to investigate, unpack and shed light on some of the smaller and bigger historical, cultural, and linguistic links between the African and Asian continents with contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and Indian Ocean scholars. Invited participants include a multidisciplinary cohort of cultural practitioners of African and Asian descent and include Nobuhle Ashanti, Shiraz Bayjoo, Thuli Gamedze, Atiyyah Khan, Traci Kwaai, Bongani Madondo, Zolitha Magengelele, Nomusa Makhubu, Siyabonga Mthembu, Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose, Thania Petersen, Meghna Singh, Ari Sitas and Ilze Wolff.

 

INVOCATIONS #1 for Indigo Waves and Other Stories

18 & 19 March 2022

Participants: Nobuhle Ashanti,  Shiraz Bayjoo,  Thuli Gamedze,  Bongani Madondo,  Atiyyah Khan, Traci Kwaai, Nomusa Makhubu, Siyabonga Mthembu,  Luvuyo Nyawose,  Thania Petersen, Meghna Singh, Ari Sitas, Ilze Wolff
Convenors: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Natasha Ginwala
Hosts and facilitators: Koyo Kouoh, Storm Janse van Rensburg, Thato Mogotsi, Beata America

 

Library of Drowned Stories. Museum of Lost Treasures. Vast Archive of Desire

praise your capacity to bury

our shipwrecks and ruined cities

praise your watery grave

human reef of bones
~

praise your capacity to remember

your library of drowned stories

museum of lost treasures

your vast archive of desire                                  ~

praise your tidalectics

your migrant routes

and submarine roots

Craig Santos Perez – Excerpt from “Praise Song for Oceania”

 

*As a note of context:

We use Palaver (as opposed to panel) because of its double meaning:
While it means to chat or to confer or ramble in English, in pidgin it means to provoke”¦ or to trouble (no find me palava ehm) so the talking heads are provocations

 

Friday 18 March [Zeitz MOCAA, level 6]

OVERTURE

10:15am                                         Introduction: Natasha Ginwala and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng  Ndikung

10:30 – 11:00am             Sonic Manifestation: Siyabonga Mthembu with Nobuhle  Ashanti Mazinyane

11:00 – 12:30pm             Palaver I: Luvuyo Nyawose, Thulile Gamedze,  Nomusa Makhubu

12:30 – 2:00pm                 Lunch

CHORUS

2:00 – 2:30pm                       Sonic Manifestation: Siyabonga Mthembu with Nobuhle  Ashanti Mazinyane

2:30 – 4:00pm                     Palaver II: Thania Petersen, Atiyyah Khan, Traci Kwaai & Ilze Wolff

4:00 – 6:00pm                     City Walk led by Ilze Wolff

8:00 – 8.30pm                        Performative Manifestation [Zeitz MOCAA Atrium]

JIEKER by Thania Petersen, in collaboration with  The Young Men Sporting Club Malay Choir & Sautur-Rayhaan Nasheed Group

9.00 – 9.30pm                       Performative Manifestation [Zeitz MOCAA Atrium]

JIEKER by Thania Petersen, in collaboration with  The Young Men Sporting Club Malay Choir & Sautur-Rayhaan Nasheed Group

 

Saturday 19 Mar. [Venue – Level 6]

OVERTURE

10:30 – 11:00am               Sonic Manifestation: Siyabonga Mthembu with Nobuhle  Ashanti Mazinyane

11:00 – 12:30pm             Palaver III: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Ari Sitas

12:30 – 2:00pm                 Lunch

CHORUS

2:15 – 3:15pm                     Sonic Remix: Bongani Madondo

3:30 – 5:00pm                       Palaver IV: Shiraz Bayjoo, Meghna Singh & Natasha Ginwala

5:30 – 6:00pm                     Sonic Manifestation: Siyabonga Mthembu with Nobuhle,  Ashanti Mazinyane