Live from the Studio with Lebogang Mogul Mabusela and Wezile Mgibe | The Worldings Virtual Residency Exchange

Join us live over Zoom for an afternoon of thoughtful exchange and collaborative discussion with Johannesburg-based artists Lebogang Mogul Mabusela and Wezile Mgibe. The artists will deliver back-to-back presentations, offering a glimpse into the research and works produced throughout the Worldings virtual residency program, followed by a group conversation and live audience Q/A.

Working from their studios at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg, South Africa, Mabusela and Mgibe will be participating in the Worldings Virtual residency program throughout the months of August and September, 2021. During this international residency exchange Mabusela and Mgibe will have the opportunity to connect with a larger cohort of artists including Canadian artists Nura Ali (Calrgary, Blackfoot Confederacy, the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation Region 3), and Vancouver based artists and award recipients Josephine Lee and Xwalacktun who reside on the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

This residency exchange is hosted in partnership with the Bag Factory, a non-profit contemporary visual art organisation in Newtown, Johannesburg.  It is presented in conjunction with “Worldings” a collaborative, multi-layered project that includes an exhibition of the work of South African artist William Kentridge curated by Lisa Baldissera, as well as a public program and residency series that will explore the unique artistic perspectives and histories that exist between the Canadian and South African experience as seen through the eyes of artists, writers, curators and activists. This program will focus on resiliency through the lens of the historical events of the last year, and the ways in which solidarity, resistance and advocacy are remitted in hope, for their capacities to elicit lasting structural change and collective care.