Ubuhlanti: Solution-Oriented Being Pop-Up Platform

Friday 15th November = Opening: 1:00-2:30 p.m. Ubuhlanti Exhibition Opening

Xolile ‘X’ Madinda officially opens exhibition, including invited and improvised exchanges. A lunch welcome with refreshments.

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Saturday 16th November = Sound Material Making: 12:00-3:00 p.m.: New Tape Worns: Public Cassette-loop Making  

Live creation of tape loops feeding the Tape Worns sound installation, with Xolile ‘X’ Madinda, Alex Christie, Kittie Cooper and Noel Lobley

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Sunday 17th November: 12:30-2:00: “Ubuhlanti Now Future Solutions”

Gallery Talk with Xolile ‘X’ Madinda

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Ongoing: Live creation of new process-based Ubuhlanti canvases at locations around and near The Fralin \\ Pop-Up Student work, including sound and visual collages, bricks, and choreographed conversations.

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Ubuhlanti is a Xhosa gathering space. It is part of a ceremonial and philosophical system designed to bring families and communities together to share, communicate and resolve the issues and problems of the day and the ages.

Including video projection, images, sound art and other newly commissioned art works, this pop-up exhibition is offered as part of the continuing relationship between The Black Power Station in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and the University of Virginia. It is designed to create a space of solution-orientated dialogue in which new audiences can listen to landscapes, histories and communities.