FATC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER,NAMATSHEGO KHUTSOANE
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My Body My Space: Public Arts Festival (MBMS) - FIRST ‘ON YOUR PHONE’ ARTS FESTIVAL TO KICK OFF IN 2021
Artists from South Africa, the African continent, and beyond are lined up for the world-first ‘arts festival on your phone’, My Body My Space: Public Arts Festival 2021.
The My Body My Space: Public Arts festival (MBMS) will kick off the South African arts calendar in January 2021 with a menu of cutting edge work presented by South African and international artists delivered straight to your phone. The festival, which makes world history as the first arts festival to take place on a dedicated WhatsApp line, will feature over 70 works by established and emerging artists from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, Madagascar, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and the United States of America.
This unique ‘festival on your phone’, funded by the National Department of Sports, Arts and Culture and the National Arts Council of South Africa, is inspiring artists to find creative ways of presenting their work in an accessible format that takes art to where people are.
Kamogelo Molobye, a South African artist, performer, writer and lecturer presents an experimental documentary entitled The State of the Nation, that follows the lives of a family living through the dehumanising and violent effects of load-shedding within the confinement of a COVID-19 lockdown. Molobye says that what excites him about creating a short-format work for the MBMS festival is “the challenge of rethinking about relatable performance modes for inclusive digital access and engagement”.
Leilah Kirsten, who presents Inwards, an exploration into the contrast of isolation and the possibilities that exist within the human experience is equally excited “to be part of an arts festival that is essentially taking place in the homes and spaces of the audience”. She wants to share her creative offering with others who might not normally have access to them, “and hopefully to inspire hearts and mind
Artists from South Africa, the African continent, and beyond are lined up for the world-first ‘arts festival on your phone’, My Body My Space: Public Arts Festival 2021.
The My Body My Space: Public Arts festival (MBMS) will kick off the South African arts calendar in January 2021 with a menu of cutting edge work presented by South African and international artists delivered straight to your phone. The festival, which makes world history as the first arts festival to take place on a dedicated WhatsApp line, will feature over 70 works by established and emerging artists from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, Madagascar, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and the United States of America.
This unique ‘festival on your phone’, funded by the National Department of Sports, Arts and Culture and the National Arts Council of South Africa, is inspiring artists to find creative ways of presenting their work in an accessible format that takes art to where people are.
Kamogelo Molobye, a South African artist, performer, writer and lecturer presents an experimental documentary entitled The State of the Nation, that follows the lives of a family living through the dehumanising and violent effects of load-shedding within the confinement of a COVID-19 lockdown. Molobye says that what excites him about creating a short-format work for the MBMS festival is “the challenge of rethinking about relatable performance modes for inclusive digital access and engagement”.
Leilah Kirsten, who presents Inwards, an exploration into the contrast of isolation and the possibilities that exist within the human experience is equally excited “to be part of an arts festival that is essentially taking place in the homes and spaces of the audience”. She wants to share her creative offering with others who might not normally have access to them, “and hopefully to inspire hearts and mind
