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The remains of a conversation

The remains of a conversation

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 What do South African artists tell us about us? Via a conversation based on a shared experience with South African artists, I want to discover a truth about the society we live in. What do artists do or think? And what does that say about us? That's what I'd like to explore with this series.Solid Gold Podcasts and Audiobooks アート 社会科学
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  • 05 Lindsay Scott and Morgan Kunhardt | A trip away from the city & the discovery of the necessity of beauty

    05 Lindsay Scott and Morgan Kunhardt | A trip away from the city & the discovery of the necessity of beauty
    2025/05/09
    In this episode, I share with you why I travel with art in my car to Howick, a quite remote place in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. I meet with internationally renowned, 82-year-old master ceramicist Lindsay Scott. Lindsay Scott is the owner of Hillford Pottery and he is one of the founders of the Midlands Meander: a famous initiative to support local artists.

    Lindsay shows me his gallery and workspaces. We sit down in his gallery to have a conversation about art. I did not get a chance to prepare our conversation with him based on a shared experience, because of the physical distance between us. But I brought two interesting art books with me:
    The first is a thesis: Wild Life - The lived experience of Artistic Creativity, written by Australian performer Angela Clarke (Monash University, 2017). And the other is the latest publication on South African pottery, called Clay Formes (edited by Olivia Barrel, Cape Town 2024).
    An idea from Clarke's thesis on touch and performance becomes the basis for my first question to Lindsay. Two reflections from Clay Formes, one by well-known South African art critic Ashraf Jamal, and another reflection on master ceramicist Fani Madoda, serve as stepping stones into Lindsay Scott’s thoughts and ideas about art and his own practice.

    After our conversation, my host Morgan Kunhardt, a fine artist herself, takes me to see the future site of her art studio at The Old Mushroom Farm in Howick. I discover that the place that I visited 14 years ago, and that my memory had preserved as a representation of a lonely and dark cabin in the woods, has transformed into something else entirely. Lindsay Scott - master ceramicist, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa · Clay Formes, Contemporary Clay from South Africa, edited by Olivia Barrel · Wild Life - phd thesis by Angela Mary Clarke - 2017 Monash University · Visit Christi Sa's website · Christi Sa on Instagram · Connect with Christi on LinkedIn
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    20 分
  • 04 Natalie De Morney | Where a wish leads to a story

    04 Natalie De Morney | Where a wish leads to a story
    2024/06/19
    Curls are the treasure.

    Right in the beginning of our conversation Natalie de Morney shares with me she has the wish to become a death doula. I am reminded of a story I wrote many years ago about a fictional society that has specific customs to deal with illness and death. This story is called The boat. I share it with you in this episode. Natalies' wish is to become a death doula, a death doula helps someone die. In my story I express the wish that a society exists where the dying person is surrounded by community. These two wishes are I believe different expressions of a need in our time.

    Natalie chose the book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho as the shared experience that we could base our conversation on. We talk about themes that are in the book, like destiny, treasure, purpose of life. About black stones and crystals. Natalie shares with me her life's story. It was hard for her to find her purpose in life. As a little girl, who looked very different as her family, she could feel the presence of persons who had died, she could sense the pain of people who were necklaced during apartheid. She didn't find guidance to these experience and she first shut that side of her down. She became first a tomboy and later a civil engineer. Yet, as an adult her body became sick and she became depressed. She reached out to healers who helped her to get in touch with her deceased grandfather via a channel. He tells Natalie she is supposed to study art. Natalie experienced a world of visions and dreams, they give her guidance. She discovered her lineage is Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Indian, San and Nguni. All these ancestors are in her. She embraces this. Natalie loves moving her hands with clay, she first makes pipes and screws, but now she makes curls, they re-connect her to a past that was first hidden. All is one. Natalie de Morney is represented by Berman Contemporary · The full text of this recording is on my website. Including the portrait. · Follow Natalie on Instagram · Visit Christi Sa's website · Christi Sa on Instagram · Connect with Christi on LinkedIn
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    14 分
  • 03 Athenkosi Kwinana | A life in South Africa with Albinism

    03 Athenkosi Kwinana | A life in South Africa with Albinism
    2024/05/02
    Imaginings as a replacement for pain.

    Athenkosi Kwinana is an African woman from the Eastern Cape who lives with Albinism. She makes large detailed self portraits. She invited me to listen to an ASMR video. I had never heard of this, so I was curious to explore. However my first attempt failed as I am hard of hearing and I couldn't understand anything the women from Kenya in the video was telling. I looked elsewhere, to words and images, to try to find explanations about what was going on. I read ASMR is about the sound effect in the body of hearing a whisper. This sensation I could explore and I tried again and I experienced pleasant waves of feelings in my body, inside my spine. This effect lasted till the moment I met Athenkosi for our conversation. On my way to the studio, our conversation place, I encounter yellow tape and a police car. I have to make a detour. I think about yellow tape and the possibility of a murdered body. I think of Athenkosi who must live with a constant fear of violent attacks on her own white body. In South Africa an African person with a white skin still encounters beliefs that her body can be an object to be 'acquired' for superstitious beliefs.

    The stories she told settled in my mind and become images. The remains of our conversation is the story I heard her tell me.

    The story about a girl born in the Eastern Cape in Mthatha, the district where Nelson Mandela also grew up in. She has a white skin and yellow hair. Her culture is Xhosa. Detailed storytelling is a defining part of her culture. She has bad eye sight, she starts to draw, she does imagining games with her mother. She learns about Salvador Dali in high school. She is inspired by Frantz Fanon, Diane Victor, Zanele Muholi. She travels to Cuba, Johannesburg. She is a visual artist and the making of art is healing for her. She wants to reimagine how the albinic body is seen in South Africa. Follow Athenkosi Kwinana on Instagram · Athenkosi Kwinana is represented by Berman Contemporary · The text of this recording including portrait on my website · Visit Christi Sa's website · Christi Sa on Instagram · Connect with Christi on LinkedIn
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    19 分

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