13 min
Episode 8: Ukugotywa kweelwimi Imiphindo kwaXhosa
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- Fashion & Beauty
What do the slippages of fashion look like? What happens to the voids?
In this episode we explore the slippages of fashion; blurring the urban & rural, the past & present, the individual & communal, folding languages, locations, and aesthetics to present new fashion knowledges, alternate fashion languages, and routes to other fashion genealogies.
Ms Nobuhle James helps us navigate the beginnings of some of the traces of fold language kwaXhosa, introducing the linguistic overlaps. Her personal story opens us up to discover the creative potentials that exist when we are limited with resources but passions burn deeply. Through her personal story we are reminded of the importance of investing/supporting/planting creative structures in ilali nabantwana basezilalini (the rural areas and with the village children).
As an advisor of isiXhosa in the Eastern Cape, Ms Nobuhle James becomes a teacher for the unknowing and the forgotten. She takes us into an informal room of coming to learn of the differences and similarities, the re-made and the innovative ways of learning and rearing found kwaXhosa.
Community contributors
The James Family
Mrs Kutazwa James
The community yaku Gatyana
Willowvale Arts Center and with special thanks to the Art Center Manager, Lukhanyo Muluse
Azola Krweqe
Mama Makholi
Ms Nobuhle James
Mrs Nokhaya Jilingisa
Willowvale Makers Co-op
Mr Mangaliso Jafta
Special thanks to the production team:
Executive Producer - Bongani Tau
Content Advisor - Sihle Sogaula
Graphic Designers - 2DOTS Space Agency
UN/FOLDING_RE/FOLDING_FOLDED is nestled under THE FOLD – a creative and collaborative research project led by the African Fashion Research Institute in partnership with Creative Nestlings Foundation for the New Narratives Programme 2023
What do the slippages of fashion look like? What happens to the voids?
In this episode we explore the slippages of fashion; blurring the urban & rural, the past & present, the individual & communal, folding languages, locations, and aesthetics to present new fashion knowledges, alternate fashion languages, and routes to other fashion genealogies.
Ms Nobuhle James helps us navigate the beginnings of some of the traces of fold language kwaXhosa, introducing the linguistic overlaps. Her personal story opens us up to discover the creative potentials that exist when we are limited with resources but passions burn deeply. Through her personal story we are reminded of the importance of investing/supporting/planting creative structures in ilali nabantwana basezilalini (the rural areas and with the village children).
As an advisor of isiXhosa in the Eastern Cape, Ms Nobuhle James becomes a teacher for the unknowing and the forgotten. She takes us into an informal room of coming to learn of the differences and similarities, the re-made and the innovative ways of learning and rearing found kwaXhosa.
Community contributors
The James Family
Mrs Kutazwa James
The community yaku Gatyana
Willowvale Arts Center and with special thanks to the Art Center Manager, Lukhanyo Muluse
Azola Krweqe
Mama Makholi
Ms Nobuhle James
Mrs Nokhaya Jilingisa
Willowvale Makers Co-op
Mr Mangaliso Jafta
Special thanks to the production team:
Executive Producer - Bongani Tau
Content Advisor - Sihle Sogaula
Graphic Designers - 2DOTS Space Agency
UN/FOLDING_RE/FOLDING_FOLDED is nestled under THE FOLD – a creative and collaborative research project led by the African Fashion Research Institute in partnership with Creative Nestlings Foundation for the New Narratives Programme 2023
13 min