Artistic Research Productions

The artistic practice-as-research productions are an integral component to the ReTAGS research. Antigone (not quite/quiet) was completed in 2019, however due to the Global Pandemic, iKrele leChiza needed to be reimagined as a filmed episodic performance. In 2022 and 2023, iKrele leChiza... the sermon was mounted as a staged theatre performance. 2023, Saw the development of the final artistic practice-as-research production, Oedipus at Colonus: #aftersophocles. As the research is currently in process, not all media for the productions are currently present in this digital collection.

 

Antigone (not quite/quiet)
Antigone, an old story from the dawn of democracy. Rule, order, power, women, mortality. This production is a set of responses to the Sophocles' play from the perspective of three of the play’s characters: Ismene, Antigone, Tiresias.
iKrele leChiza 2021
This interdisciplinary and episodic performance is the reimagining of the Greek epic the Odyssey by Homer as understood through an African lens and within the landscape of Mbothwe's theatrical mythology.
iKrele leChiza 2022
iKrele leChiza...the sermon, is a production of ritual, song and magic realism, it stirs up a dreamlike state of spiritual ecstasy much like a sermon.
Oedipus at Colonus #aftersophocles
Tackling the problem of what to do with the leftovers of a catastrophic past, the rot that remains long after the cause has ended and the impacts this has on the land, the people and their patrimony.