Podcasts by The ICA Podcast

S3E07: Kolawole Gbolahan from 2022-12-01T09:30

“And that title, Reclaiming the Poetics of Indigenous Horns was basically just trying to bring together this art form I so much adore with these instruments I also have so much respect and love ...

S3E06: Russel Hlongwane from 2022-11-24T08:30

“There's a school of thought that says indigenous knowledges need to be protected. And what that often means or implies is that it has to be concealed, and not shared in any way with anyone. And...

S3E05: Nkosenathi Koela from 2022-11-17T08:30

“How I came about that title [ukuNqula kukuThandaza] was, I was really very much interested in the phenomenon of recitation and prayer, within an indigenous ecology of knowing, that really focus...

S3E04: Lukhanyiso Skosana from 2022-11-10T08:45

​​"Ingoduko yamaNkazana, for me, became a conversation with myself and my ancestry. Because I wanted them to explain to me as to, when my body is brought home to its final resting place, wheneve...

S3E03: Qondiswa James from 2022-11-03T08:30

“We are everywhere is a performative explication of some of the theoretical concepts and how they found themselves as public interventions through last year. It was public interventions, not int...

S3E02: Asemahle Ntlonti from 2022-10-27T09:00

"At the time, when people were talking about the land issue in South Africa, yes, I was for it. But it's only when it hits you personally, that you’re like, okay, how do we then talk about this?...

S3E01: Tandile Mbatsha from 2022-10-20T00:21:27

"I saw this thing that was growing literally on gravel; this flower that had popped on gravel. It was the most gorgeous thing… And I use that metaphor, or that image of that seed growing on rugg...

S3: Introduction from 2022-10-13T09:07:46

Welcome to Season 3 of The ICA Podcast!

In this Season – hosted by writer Nkgopoleng Moloi – each episode explores a performance featured at the 2022 ICA Live Art Festival. Join us over ...

S2E08: Jay Pather from 2022-10-01T14:57:34

“The body remembers more than through the head. Nerve and vessel, artery and synapse, all carry information from point to point, suffusing muscle, bone and cell with a plethora of image and soun...

S2E07: nomi blum from 2022-06-14T08:31:01

“When my grandmother died, I thought about all the stories that she took with her in the ground, and I thought a lot about how, in Romania, you have so many people having such interesting memori...

S2E06: Athi-Patra Ruga from 2022-05-06T15:51:11

“Post 1994, it felt like you were being made part of a body national, and there was something slightly and softly violent about it... Utopia, balloons, zebras, multi colours – all of those thing...

S2E05: Gavin Krastin from 2022-02-22T13:24:21

“I just knew that I wanted the audience to be the catalyst, or driver, of the action. I don't know if it's from a particular type of training in theatre, but there's always so much pressure to d...

S2E04: Nomcebisi Moyikwa from 2022-02-01T18:59:18

“In the beginning, I began to think: ‘Okay, how can I save the world?' Now, I'm more like: ‘What kind of world do I want to live in?’ And how can my expressions become a language that begins the...

S2E03: Kopano Maroga from 2021-12-22T15:07:28

“Associating Jesus with whiteness, associating Jesus with the upper class, the way that this person gets utilised sociopolitically – it's completely antithetical to everything that he was, and e...

S2E02: Donna Kukama from 2021-12-20T10:58:14

“I didn't want to become trapped in this cycle of only speaking about violence when speaking of marginalised bodies’ experiences. I wanted to know, also, how we heal, how do we stay afloat? How ...

S2E01: Introduction from 2021-12-17T11:37:08

Welcome to Season 2 of The ICA Podcast! Featuring: Donna Kukama, Gavin Krastin, Nomcebisi Moyikwa, Kopano Maroga, Jay Pather, Athi-Patra Ruga and nomi blum.

We’re doing things a bit diffe...

Episode 9 (Bonus): Bongani Kona from 2021-01-20T21:54:39

“When I think of Cape Town, I don't think of the Indian or Atlantic Ocean, or Table Mountain. I think of borders, boundaries, dividing lines which mark territory, and I think of personhood. And ...

Episode 8: Nkule Mabaso from 2020-12-03T16:53:46

“Around grade 10, there was this whole drama in the school because of what I felt was different treatment – that when the white girls coloured their hair, so they'd come in one day, their hair’s...

Episode 7: Meghna Singh from 2020-10-22T14:19:20

“My stories, my way of expressing always comes in these very strong images. And then I always think of, what would it make the other person feel? More than think, what would it make the other pe...

Episode 6: Sikhumbuzo Makandula from 2020-09-25T15:39:46

“It's almost like you become an intercessor of particular stories, where your responsibility is to illuminate certain histories. But also, one of the things that I've learned with this form of w...

Episode 5: Dean Hutton from 2020-09-03T19:25:59

“If there’s anything that I’m trying to decode in my work, it’s power. And my understanding of power as it relates to my body, as it relates to my intersections of power, and oppression – and ho...

Episode 4: Khanyisile Mbongwa from 2020-08-14T12:00:49

“I feel and think and know and have encountered that, for as long as I can remember, we've been negotiating ways of dying. We have been told that like, you know, you're here, you're born to work...

Episode 3: Chuma Sopotela from 2020-07-30T10:54:23

“For me, the process of research doesn’t stop because I’m performing. I am still that whirlwind. My pores are still wide open for information.”

In today's episode, we accompany artist and...

Episode 2: Lesiba Mabitsela from 2020-07-14T20:10:34

"And what I'm referencing is this idea of perceived or created masculinities. You are creating an individual. I've always thought that fashion is that. It's a conveyor belt of looks, of ideas of...

Episode 1: Introduction from 2020-06-29T18:51:42

Jay Pather, Director of the Institute for Creative Arts (ICA), reflects on the first performance to ever make an impression on him, and we introduce you t...