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This September, The Centre for the Less Good Idea presents HOW | Showing the Making with Penny Siopis on Friday 27 September, and In Conversation with Penny Siopis and Milisuthando Bongela-Davis on Saturday 28 September. Pursuing the overarching themes of materiality, memory, narrative, the archival and the autobiographical, these two events will carry a collective focus on how we make stories using history, the body and the self as material.
HOW | SHOWING THE MAKING: PENNY SIOPIS
On Friday 27 September, interdisciplinary South African artist Penny Siopis will present HOW | Showing the Making.
Presented by SO | The Academy for the Less Good Idea, HOW | Showing the Making is a series of performance lectures and demonstrations by artists and performers.
By inviting the audience into her studio process, which encompasses filmmaking, painting, and installation, Siopis’ HOW | Showing the Making will be an opportunity for audiences to witness how she makes her work, giving insight into the thinking, inspiration and techniques that shape it.
Specifically, it is the link between Siopis’ painting and filmmaking practices and her engagement with both materiality and physicality in her work, that will inform this HOW.
DATE | 27 SEPTEMBER 2024
TIME | 19h00
VENUE | THE CENTRE SPACE, THE CENTRE FOR THE LESS GOOD IDEA, ARTS ON MAIN, 264 FOX STREET, MABONENG
DURATION | 60-90 MINUTES
TICKETS | Standard HOW | Showing the Making ticket – R150
Double Ticket for HOW | Showing the Making (27 September) AND In Conversation (28 September) – R250
IN CONVERSATION | SIOPIS, BONGELA-DAVIS & MUYANGA
On Saturday 28 September, The Centre for the Less Good Idea hosts an In Conversation between Penny Siopis and award-winning writer, editor, cultural worker and artist Milisuthando Bongela-Davis. While Siopis will be physically present at The Centre in Maboneng, Bongela-Davis will join us in the room via live-stream from New York.
Moderated by The Centre’s Impresario, Neo Muyanga, the conversation will look at, among other things, the links between autobiographical and archival material in order to tell personal and universal stories, and taking an embodied, conversational and collaborative approach to film.
Since its inception, The Centre has hosted In Conversation events, often leveraging off existing opportunities and identifying remarkable individuals who happen to be moving through Johannesburg. The Centre invites these individuals to join us in spontaneous conversations with its founder, William Kentridge or other arts practitioners.
Previous In Conversation events have included Homi K Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, Yinka Shonibare, Jane Taylor, Walid Raad, Stacy Hardy, Daniel Borzutzky, Ernesto Neto and Wole Soyinka to name a few.
DATE | 28 SEPTEMBER 2024
TIME | 19h00
VENUE | THE CENTRE SPACE, THE CENTRE FOR THE LESS GOOD IDEA, ARTS ON MAIN, 264 FOX STREET, MABONENG
DURATION | 60-90 MINUTES
TICKETS | Standard HOW | Showing the Making ticket – R150
Double Ticket for HOW | Showing the Making (27 September) AND In Conversation (28 September) – R250
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Milisuthando Bongela-Davis (b.1985, South Africa) is an award-winning writer, editor, cultural worker and artist. Her career began in the fashion industry but the last 16 years have seen her traverse the worlds of music, art, media and film — continually turning towards indigenous knowledge systems. She was Arts Editor for the Mail & Guardian's Friday section and was host and co-producer of the podcast Umoya: On African Spirituality with Dr. Athambile Masola. Her first feature film, a personal essay documentary titled MILISUTHANDO had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, was the opening film to Encounters International Film Festival in South Africa and was selected for MoMA’s New Directors / New Films programme 2023. She is an inaugural fellow of the 2020 Adobe Women at Sundance Fellowship and is currently working as a producer on a short fiction film directed by her long-term collaborator Hankyeol Lee. Milisuthando lives with her husband in New York.
Penny Siopis was born in 1953 in Vryburg, South Africa, and lives in Cape Town. She has an MFA and an Honorary Doctorate from Rhodes University, and is an Honorary Professor at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Her work since the early 1980s has encompassed painting, film/video, installation and photography. All her explorations, whether with body politics, memory, migration, or the relations between the human and non-human, are characterised by her interest in what she calls the ‘poetics of vulnerability’ – embodied in the dynamic play between materiality and reference, chance and contingency, form and formlessness, personal and collective history.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
264 Fox Street, 2001 Johannesburg, South Africa, 264 Fox St, City and Suburban, 2001, South Africa,Johannesburg
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