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#WomensMonth: Khanyisile Mbongwa on curating with cure and care – Biz Community

Artist, sociologist and chief curator of the inaugural Stellenbosch Triennale, Khanyisile Mbongwa, chats to us about womxn in the arts, sustainability and how to curate with the theme of ”cure and care” at the forefront.
Mbongwa also works with the Norval Foundation as adjunct curator for Performative Practices and with Cape Town Carnival as curatorial and socio-critical development advisor as well as the Handspring Trust’s executive director.
Can you tell us about the idea behind the Stellenbosch Triennale’s theme Tomorrow There will Be More of Us?

The theme is about imaging and creating common sustainable futures by looking at our wounds and instigating ways or methods of healing. It’s about searching for emancipatory practices through remembering the ancestral, the spiritual, the imaginative and becoming.

It’s about our histories of migration, our everyday lived experience and how we have to rethink our concepts of space and the distribution of resources.

Are you hopeful for the future of our planet?

The Amazonia was burning in Brazil last week, this is a signal of the kinds of systemic challenges we facing and fighting – it is nature against capitalism and consumerist culture.

As a realist-optimist, I always have to be critical about where we truly stand as individuals and collective and, I think, we are fighting in our capacities and that gives me hope about human attitude that can influence the condition.

But we can’t be ignorant about the policies, legislation, rules and regulations that are at play and thus for fundamental change in attitudes and conditions to occur, these need to be changed.

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October 1, 2019
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