African Design/2015/53 min/Reel № 15.001
ByWilliam Kentridge
William Kentridge on peripheral thinking
Make. Change./Recorded 2015
A close reading, kept within reach.
William Kentridge takes african design 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 2015, the conversation is grounded in William'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.
South Africa’s foremost artist demonstrates how productive procrastination is at the heart of his creative process.
About the speaker
William Kentridge
Johannesburg/South Africa
William Kentridge is South Africa's most internationally acclaimed artist.
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