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DUT’s LECTURER GIVES A VOICE TO THE INFORMAL COMMUNAL SPACES WITH ARTS PROJECT.

DUT’s LECTURER GIVES A VOICE TO THE INFORMAL COMMUNAL SPACES WITH ARTS PROJECT.

Meet Bongumenzi Ngobese, the Durban University of Technology’s very own Fine Art lecturer who will exhibit at the KZNSA Gallery during the 2017 DigiFest.

Ngobese will exhibit his video and sculptural installation. The framework of Ngobese’s art project is to give a voice to the informal communal spaces which exist at the margin of the urban landscape.

Talking about his work, Ngobese said it is the epitome of his co-existence. “The townships and rural landscapes have become silent spaces through economic and racial segregation. The primary objective of my project is to stimulate dialogue where audiences begin to elaborate on the issues of the unrecognised voices from the outside, which demand to be heard and tolerated as they also form part of life which exists in the South African landscape,” he said.
The 2017 Digifest theme is Glitch, Ngobese incorporated the theme within his art project, which is the continuous silence of peripheral spaces through social-economic and political marginalisation.

Ngobese will be exhibiting tomorrow (Tuesday, 07 November 2017) from 5pm to 9pm.

Pictured: Bongumenzi Ngobese next to a portrait of himself by Sakhile Mhlongo.

Carly van der Westhuizen

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