Art & Photography/2014/Reel № 14.001
ByAthi-Patra Ruga, Nandipha Mntambo, Zanele Muholi
State of the Art (trailer)
A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014
A close reading, kept within reach.
Athi-Patra Ruga takes art & photography as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in South Africa in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Athi-Patra's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Three renowned South African artists let us into their intensely personal vision.
About the speaker
Athi-Patra Ruga
Cape Town/South Africa
Athi-Patra Ruga is an artist who explores the border-zones between fashion, performance and contemporary art.
Nandipha Mntambo
Cape Town/South Africa
Nandipha Mntambo is a South African artist and 2011 winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art.
Zanele Muholi
Johannesburg/South Africa
Zanele Muholi is a visual activist raising awareness around gender, race and human rights.
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