Radiant Walls-What Remains

WHAT:
Radiant Walls (Learn-Unlearn) + What Remains Through Time (Slowness and Stillness) were both installation and performance event created for the Vrystaat Kunstefees/Tsa-Botjhaba Festival 2025, created in Southern Africa working closely with the local community. A mudbrick wall, filled with poetry floats high above Sekeole Holistic Artspace – broadcasting the ‘radiant voice’ of local poet/activist Pheello Rasello into the night sky. This ethereal installation transforms traditional African cob wall materials – by incorporating hundreds of glass bottles that together make up a giant ‘lo-fi’ digital text display – projecting radiant voices and visions of ‘unlearning’ & ‘relearning’ far and wide. Imagery from this work, now playing the poetry of renowned activist/artist Pitika Ntuli, accompanied by spoken work from Dr.  Busisiwe  Ntsele, then becomes a key component of a performance and  installation in the South African National Gallery - as part of the collaborative exhibition, What Remains Through Time, Slowness and Stillness.

OUTCOMES:
1: Sekeole Artspace for the Vrystaat Kunstefees/Tsa-Botjhaba Festival 2025, 11-19th July 6-9pm, with performance night Wed 16th July, 6-9pm
2: South African National Gallery, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Mangaung, South Africa, 15 July–24 August 2025

WHO: Collaborating with Dr. Anita Venter, Lenosa Mohopong, Pheello Rasello, The Sekeole creative team, Sonya Radermeyer, Jemima Kola (MyMalaika_Photography), Pitika Ntuli, Dr. Busisiwe  Ntsele, Mary Sebabatso  Mofama.

PARTNERS: Vrystaat Kunstefees/Tsa-Botjhaba Festival 2025, Sekeole Holistic Arts Centre, The South African National Gallery, University Free State, South Africa, Centre For Development Support, Faculty Economic and Management Sciences & QUT School of CreativeArts.

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