Opening: Tales of History Retold
Curated by Kim Gurney & Carlyn Strydom. Participating artists include Alka Dass, Hasan Essop, Husain Essop, Ange-Fedéric Koffi, Kitso Lelliott, Emma Minkley, Mandisi Nkomo, Scott Eric Williams.
The lyatsiba Lab: 05.11.2025 - 28.11.2025
Mark your calendar for the opening of Tales of History Retold at The lyatsiba Lab on Wednesday, 5 November 2025, at 5:30 pm
For this exhibition, eight artists were invited to select artefacts from AVA’s archive as source material for an artistic response. The AVA Archive spans roughly 25 years to either side of the political watershed of 1994. Its temporal arc offers a compelling backstage testament to the entanglement of art, politics and everyday life. In its multiple voices and media, from poetry to installation and video, Tales of History Retold troubles the idea of archive as a singular authority and offers instead a more tentative and playful renegotiation of meaning over time.
Opening remarks by Olga Speakes (AVA) & Premesh Lalu (UWC).
Date: Wednesday 5 November 2025
Time: 5:30 for 6:00 pm
Venue: The lyatsiba Lab, 66 Greatmore Street, Woodstock (enter via Regents St)
To RSVP email centreforhumanitiesresearch@uwc.ac.za
This exhibition project is organised under the auspices of the British Academy/NRF, UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities at the Centre for Humanities Research, as part of its inaugural international workshop in Culture & Technics (10-12 November).
The exhibition run continues until Friday 28 November, Monday-Friday 09h00-16h00 and Saturdays 10h00-13h00. A guided curatorial walkabout by Kim Gurney & Carlyn Strydom will be held on Saturday 15th November at 11h00 – all welcome.
Iyatsiba Gallery is part of Iyatsiba Lab, UWC’s newly refurbished Centre for Humanities Research in Woodstock that brings together different disciplines thinking with the arts.