Sihle Motsa

Sihle Motsa is a Master’s student and the History Access Scholar. She is a writer and art practitioner interested in curatorial and archival research methodologies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in linguistics, visual cultures, gender and Black modalities of being that complicate futurity. Her research traces the discursive boundaries of the digital archive, exploring  how myth is coded within such an archive and how orality facilities myth and meaning making within the digital. She is interested in the temporal dimensions of the archive and what knowledges may emerge from reading the future as an historical period. She has worked as a sessional lecturer, authored multiple articles for various art publications including a chapter for the Art South Africa Initiative and a catalogue essay for the “When Rain Clouds Gather” exhibition curated by Nontobeko Ntombela and Portia Malatjie.