UN/FOLDING_RE/FOLDING_FOLDED: Imiphindo kwaXhosa is a practice-led podcast project by Siviwe James that unfolds as a sonic archive and a site of return. Through a series of intimate audio-visual encounters, the podcast explores the fold as both method and metaphor in African fashion—inviting listeners into the sensory, spiritual, and social lives of garments, rituals, and everyday cultural gestures. The project is supported by the African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI) and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
Imiphindo kwaXhosa
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UN/FOLDING_RE/FOLDING_FOLDED: Imiphindo kwaXhosa is a practice-led podcast project by Siviwe James that unfolds as a sonic archive and a site of return. Through a series of intimate audio-visual encounters, the podcast explores the fold as both method and metaphor in African fashion—inviting listeners into the sensory, spiritual, and social lives of garments, rituals, and everyday cultural gestures. The project is supported by the African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI) and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
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December 6, 2023
Bonus: Incoko nomboniso kuGatyana
On the 25 August 2023, the production team for UN/FOLDING_RE/FOLDING_FOLDED: Imiphindo kwaXhosa returned kuGatyana to the co-authors and their community for a listening session. The day exceeded all expectations, turning the simple efforts of a creative research project into a regenerative and reparative experience for a community to SEE AND HEAR FROM THEMSELVES. Supported by the Willowvale Arts Center Manager, Lukhanyo Muluse and Curator and Arts Practitioner Azola Krweqe, the podcast listening session brought attention to the Center, 'inspiring the community anew of its value in grounding cultural and communal dialogues and activities. Located on the outskirts of this small town, the Center serves as a creative focal point. Established in 2008 by the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture the uniquely designed building supports artists from Willowvale and the Mbhashe local municipality by introducing innovative methods of fostering creative economies that respond to the sensibilities of the surroundings, and cater to its local communities. Lukhanyo expressed the impact of the podcast project, “I would like to extend my gratitude to you for choosing the Willowvale Art Centre as a space to involve the community of Willowvale. The contemporary art scene in South Africa is not one that is easy to navigate, it is filled with inequalities that leave black and marginalized people on the outskirts. This is felt tenfold at Centre because it exists within a community that battles with challenges such as inadequate service delivery, minimal support from those in power, challenges around rural development, and arts and culture always taking the backseat. Even though these challenges exist and are prevalent in the everyday, it is for us to continue pushing forward and doing the work that we have been called to do and engaging with the podcast was a reminder of this necessary work.” It is words such as these that reflect on how sonic interventions of this nature can do more than just create interesting listening outcomes for contemporary audiences. They begin to fill the voids in our cultural fabric, and contribute to strengthening the voices/crafting new archives of everyday knowledges in thinking about how we fashion ourselves. CLOSING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Supporting organisations: Art Meets - Digital archive support on Art Meets App Eastern Cape Departments of Sports, Arts and Culture Special mention to locations referenced: Elukhanyisweni: James Family Home, kuQumbu, eMdeni Mr and Mrs James residence, eHighburry, Umtata Ngumla Family Home, eGcibala, Tsomo, Mpintsha Family Home, Nkanga, Willowvale Willowvale Arts Center, with special thanks to the Art Center Manager, Lukhanyo Muluse Walmer Road Lodge, Beacon Bay, East London with special thanks to Mrs Kutazwa James Production team: Executive Producer - Bongani Tau Curator - Siviwe James Content Advisor - Sihle Sogaula Graphic Designers - 2DOTS Space Agency Video and sound editing - Siviwe James Text by Siviwe James Xhosa advisor - Ms Nobuhle James Community contributors: The James Family with special thanks to Mrs Nokugcina James for allowing the recording of umsebenzi womyeni wakhe Mr Luphumlo James Willowvale Makers Co-op: Kholiswa Magida, Theko Theo Vinindwa, Philiswa Matutu, Nwabisa Mahlaleshushu, Miranda Sihlabeni The community yakuGatyana: Cebisa Magoqoza, Mzukisi Nketshu, Thando Madwantsi, Thobile Tsutsu, Sikelela Thobigunya, Neliswa Bambintala, Miranda Sihlangu, and the broader community at large Youth Participants: Zintle Bonakele, Vuyokazi Mncono, Lethu Jilingisi, Nokubonga Hawu, Lisakhanya Poni, Yolande Tskane, Liyabona Ntshobodwana, Buyiswa Beauty Nduwe Narrating Voices: Mr Mangaliso Jafta Azola Krweqe Ms Nobuhle James Mrs Nokhaya JilingisI Mama Phakani and Zizo Ntukushe Video/Visual contributors: Azola Krweqe Sibabalwe Makeleni
October 9, 2023
Episode 10: Inkcubeko Yakwantu
<p>We spend time with uAzola Krweqe, a curator and visual practitioner from Cape Town, residing and practising from her paternal home located in Nkanga, Willowvale. Her photographic enquiries explore her subjects’ freedom to consider how they wish to be made visible to public audiences. While visitng with uAzola we come to learn of how her return <strong>home</strong> has nurtured a growing relationship with her culture and ancestral practises that have allowed for her to be returned to histories that tend to be forgotten when live and move in the cities. As we meander through her personal story we come to learn anew of how isintu can play an integral part kwingcinga yethu as black practitioners. </p> <p> Inckubeko Yakwantu is Azola’s extension on her research and development project following her time spent with Curator and British Council consultant Cindy Sissokho whilst at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Addressing the ongoing provocation of “representation”, Azola has come to grow her ideas, looking at ‘How young curators can think of ways that solve local issues?’ This includes creative work that encourages social development, particularly in rural and remote locations like that of Willowvale. Based kuGatyane, Inkcubeko Yakwantu involves the Makers of the Willowvale Arts Centre while drawing on indigenous knowledge practices and intuitive processes as a part of its development and experimentation. Key to Inkcubeko Yakwantu are intergenerational conversations between young and old, which aid the project in its re-imaginings of new pathways that help shape a more compassionate and self-empowered future.</p> <p> “It is my hope that this project will contribute towards rural development in South Africa by challenging the problematic representations of those living in rural areas that have been historically enforced through colonialism and western thought, and that continue to exist in the now. I am excited by the prospects of supporting and developing sustainable art and culture spaces/activities ezilalini (in rural areas).” Azola is a part of the community co-authors who offer us a new lens into ilali and it’s value for the contemporary Maker/Thinker.</p> <p><strong>Community contributors </strong> The James Family Mrs Kutazwa James The community yaku Gatyana Willowvale Arts Center and with special thanks to the Art Center Manager, Lukhanyo Muluse Azola Krweqe</p> <p>Mama Makholi Ms Nobuhle James Mrs Nokhaya Jilingisa Willowvale Makers Co-op Mr Mangaliso Jafta <strong>Special thanks to the production team:</strong> Executive Producer - Bongani Tau Content Advisor - Sihle Sogaula Graphic Designers - 2DOTS Space Agency </p> <p>UN/FOLDING_RE/FOLDING_FOLDED is nestled under THE FOLD – a creative and collaborative research project led by the African Fashion Research Institute in partnership with Creative Nestlings Foundation for the New Narratives Programme 2023.</p>
October 9, 2023
Episode 9: UN/Folding at the Willowvale Arts Center (W.A.C)
<p>The Willowvale Arts Center is a creative hub located on the outskirts of the remote town of Willowvale. Established in 2008 by the Department of Sports, Arts and culture, the uniquely designed building is the host site for creatives kuGatyana (Willowvale) and Mbhashe Municipality at large, where many come to learn about and explore innovative methods that can aid them in growing in the local creative economy in the Eastern Cape. The center (W.A.C) functions as an inclusive space for the community to meet at, share and hold (archive) important cultural dialogues/stories/performances as means of engaging with cultural heritage in new, contemporary and dynamic ways for all practitioners/thinkers from the local area. </p> <p>By placing Imiphindo kwaXhosa in this local creative hub, the podcast was able to tap into the minds and practises of local Makers/Thinkers who tend to be left out of critical reflections on cultural practises. These practioners who are often referred to as 'ooMama noTata bethu' are the threads that hold the deeper lineal meanings of dress, ritual, design and the everyday in tact. By investing in local hubs and the Makers/Thinkers located here, we hope to offer these voices new audiences who will come to recognise and value their critical reflections on culture and the act of 'being' kwaXhosa. Community contributors The James Family Mrs Kutazwa James The community yaku Gatyana Willowvale Arts Center and with special thanks to the Art Center Manager, Lukhanyo Muluse Azola Krweqe Mama Makholi Ms Nobuhle James Mrs Nokhaya Jilingisa Willowvale Makers Co-op Mr Mangaliso Jafta Special thanks to the production team: Executive Producer - Bongani Tau Content Advisor - Sihle Sogaula Graphic Designers - 2DOTS Space Agency UN/FOLDING_RE/FOLDING_FOLDED is nestled under THE FOLD – a creative and collaborative research project led by the African Fashion Research Institute in partnership with Creative Nestlings Foundation for the New Narratives Programme 2023</p> <p><br></p>
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