Episode 8
Listen to the final episode of Season 2 of The ICA Podcast! Featuring academic, curator, choreographer and director of the ICA, Jay Pather.
Pather reflects on the lasting influence of his personal, educational and political background on his artistic practice and extensive body of work. And, in the second half of the conversation, we dive into his visceral and haunting dance work, performed by Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre, Body of Evidence – from the intricate workshop process that brought the performance into being, to the work’s grappling with precarity, memory, the inexpressibility of pain, and the long aftereffects of trauma lodged in the body, for the individual and for the nation.
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Jay Pather.
Jay Pather, Body of Evidence, 2009. Performed by Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre. Photos by Val Adamson.
Jay Pather is a choreographer, curator, teacher and writer. He is a Professor at the University of Cape Town where he directs the ICA. He curates the Infecting the City Festival; the ICA Live Art Festival, the Afrovibes Festival (the Netherlands); co-curated for Africa 20/21 Season (France); Spier Light Art (Cape Town), and the Spielart Festival (Germany). His artistic work deploys site-specific, interdisciplinary and intercultural strategies to frame matters of social justice. Publications include a book he edited, with Catherine Boulle, Acts of Transgression and articles in Theater, Rogue Urbanism and The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm.
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Jay Pather, Body of Evidence, 2009. Performed by Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre. Photo by Val Adamson