Fish out of water: co-creating belonging through site-oriented performance

This seminar series is part of “A Season of Black Study” and curated by the research project FutureBrownSpace, an initiative of Afro-Diasporic practitioners, based in Black Studies, dedicated to creating nourishing spaces for people of the global majority to develop their projects (of art, of being, of activism or community) and for anyone who wishes to appreciate, and join in its significance for a more coalitional, less neo-colonial future; whether your access to Black Study is through the brown, the decolonial, the neurodivergent, whether you find black affinities with your class struggle, gender battles or variously abled superpowers, if you can move with it, tremble with it, let it break you out of abstraction and shake some non-censored sense into you, then you can be with usin Black Study.

This Season brings together artists, researchers and organizers from Sweden, performance art and theatre from South Africa, and scholars from the U.S, to share the interdisciplinary, aesthetic and transcultural nature of black study.

Fish out of water: co-creating belonging through site-oriented performance

Mmatumisang Motsisi is theatre-maker, educator and performer based in Stellenbosch, South Africa. She facilitates meaning making through the body as the primary means of discovery, exploration and expression. Her work emerges from a curiosity around People, Place and Positionality. She is currently pursuing a Dual Award PhD in Higher Education at Stellenbosch University and Coventry University. 

In conversation with Maipelo Gabang, PhD student.

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