If improvisation could serve as a manual, if gesture could serve as a guide
Christian Nyampeta, Jota Mombaça, Nyakallo Maleke, Gabi Ngcobo
Performance
24 March 2023
4:30 – 9 pm
NGO - Nothing Gets Organised
Curators: Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Thiago de Paula Souza
The second iteration of If improvisation could serve as a manual, if gesture could serve as a guide was hosted by NGO-Nothing Gets Organised. The event which took shape as a gathering of performances, readings and conversations, is produced in collaboration with artist and curator Gabi Ngcobo, and converges around ideas of improvisation and gesture and offers sonic responses for the core inquiry of the nomadic program. The evening involves conversations with artists Christian Nyampeta, Jota Mombaça and Nyakallo Maleke.
Persons
Christian Nyampeta
Jota Mombaça
Nyakallo Maleke
Gabi Ngcobo
Nomaduma Rosa Masilela
Thiago de Paula Souza
Series
How do we learn to love each other while we are embattled on so many fronts? is a series developed by Vleeshal's nomadic curators for 2022-2023 Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago de Paula Souza.
The title for this series is borrowed from Audre Lorde, writer and activist, who penned this question in 1984 in a journal entry written while she was living in Berlin, during which time she asked a litany of incisive existential questions about finding meaning in the face of uncertainty, despair, and psychic and physical vulnerability. Nomaduma and Thiago articulate their nomadic program of 2022-2023 around this question. The devotion of Audre Lorde to create international feminist political networks of camaraderie reflects the core concerns of their program. Nomaduma and Thiago similarly ask questions of how does one teach or share, how does one survive, how does one empower others, how does one fight, how does one repair, how does one nourish, as the core foundations of their collaborative curatorial practice.