The opening event of NON XCHANGE, this panel discussion focuses upon individual and collective bodies that come together in resistance to existing hierarchies of power and structures of oppression. Departing from the performativity of the United Nations as a theatrical platform for global politics, the speakers consider and reflect upon how artists can create social spaces that disrupt the flow of power. How does our investment in a notion of ‘global identity’ tie us to the valuation of certain notions of community and the rejection of other evident bodies?
The panel is chaired by curator and writer Osei Bonsu and speakers include artist, DJ and writer Juliana Huxtable, Professor Akwugo Emejulu (University of Warwick) and filmmaker and academic Kodwo Eshun (Goldsmiths University).
NON XCHANGE premieres a new short film made in collaboration with Harley Weir and Grace Wales Bonner. The experimental film scored by Devonte Hynes explores a broad spectrum of dance via the protagonist, Leroy Mokgatle, a 17-year-old ballet dancer from Pretoria, South Africa. Collaging dance scenes spanning across Johannesburg and Cape Town, fantasy and reality intertwine as the extremes of discipline are explored through the people we meet along the way.
The closing event of NON XCHANGE presents a programme of music and performance within a unique installation featuring commissioned flags and banners designed to echo the architecture of the United Nations General Assembly. It will feature artists from the South Africa, the UK and the US, including Angel Ho, Chino Amobi, Embaci, Faka, Farai, Julianna Huxtable and Orethea.
There were also be a programme of videos in the ICA Bar by Bafic, Jody Brand, Akinola Davies and Tabitha Rezaire among others.
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