Biography
Bonang Libuke (Producer) is a Mosotho-South African visual artist, writer, researcher, and activist whose multidisciplinary practice moves across visual arts, writing, education, and curation. Her work interrogates identity, heritage, belonging, and the complex relationships between self and community, informed by the social and political realities of post-colonial Southern Africa. Working across abstract, editorial, and humanist visual languages, Libuke constructs layered narratives that engage memory, lived experience, and collective consciousness. Her practice is grounded in an understanding of storytelling as both an artistic and political act.
Lwanda Sindaphi (Director) is an Igqirha, multidisciplinary artist, playwright, theatre director, actor, and poet whose practice is rooted in performance, ritual, and storytelling. Working across theatre and spoken word, his work draws on contemporary and avant-garde performance methodologies to explore the possibilities of live, collaborative, and site-specific practice. Sindaphi’s approach to performance is shaped by over a decade of experience within South African theatre and a sustained engagement with physical theatre, scriptwriting, and poetic expression. His practice moves between the written and embodied, bringing together language, movement, spirituality, and performance as modes through which stories are encountered and shared.
Sanelisiwe Nyaba (Producer) is a multimodal artist, writer, co-researcher, and food activist whose practice moves across artistic research, storytelling, and community-based inquiry. She currently serves as a Board Member of Food Agency Cape Town, a co-research-led organisation advancing food research alongside communities across Cape Town. Nyaba is also pursuing a Master’s degree at the University of Cape Town, where her research explores the intersections of food and motherhood through qualitative and arts-based methodologies. Central to her practice is an interest in storytelling as a method of engaging and deepening the analysis of empirical research within food security discourse.
Synopsis
Scarcity as Ceremony: A pot of pap at the end of a rainbow is a public performance intervention that stages food insecurity as a visible and embodied system. The work transforms a public space into a constructed environment where food is present, handled, and circulated, yet remains unevenly distributed. The audience witnesses a live enactment of controlled access. The project is grounded in the understanding that systemic hunger is not incidental but produced. It draws on an African epistemological framework to interpret this condition as a form of colonial witchcraft: a set of invisible, historically embedded operations that regulate access to resources, sustain imbalance, and normalize scarcity within contexts of abundance. Scarcity as Ceremony renders these dynamics visible through performance, shifting the focus from explanation to enactment.