Day 1: Wednesday,
14th September 2022
18h00 Practices of Repair
Exhibition Opening at NGO (Nothing Gets Organised, Nugget Square)127 Albert Street, 28 Nugget Square, 2001, Johannesburg
Hosted in collaboration with Nothing Gets Organised (NGO), Practices of Repair will operate as a framing device for the Johannesburg Programme of Power Talks. The exhibition engages reparative/non-reparative approaches to engaging with power, uncertainty, aesthetic conceit, material forces, forms of life/living/animacy and lexicons of violence.
Practices of Repair features the work of Lebogang Mabusela, Kundai Moyo, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Nono Motlhoki, Khanyisile Mawhayi, Thulile Gamedze, Cheriese Dilrajh and Donna Kukama.
Operating in downtown Johannesburg for the last six years, NGO - Nothing Gets Organised - has attempted to administer an alternative to the current structures practitioners within the context of Johannesburg. The platform was founded in 2016 by Dineo Seshee Bopape, Gabi Ngcobo and Sinethemba Twalo. Noting the contingent nature of our present, their programming attempts to be a dialogical encounter with now and another time. Understanding the future as plural and disparate encounters with both a past not yet passed, and the present as it reveals itself and/or remains hidden, NGO embraces the future unknown as a premise that might yield another possibility. Practices of Repair also features in NGO’s current programme, An Accumulation of Uncertainties, a project realised by their collaboration with POOL.
Prishani Naidoo will offer an opening reflection on the exhibition and the Johannesburg Power Talks Programme.
The opening will also feature a performance by poet Busisiwe Veronica Mahlangu
The exhibition closes on 25 September 2022.