Sange Mpambani

  Honours student
Sange Mpambani is a black queer performance artist, theatre performer, arts writer, and emerging curator from Khayelitsha, Cape Town. He holds a BA degree with distinction from Rhodes University, South Africa. He is currently pursuing his Honours degree in Art History and Visual Culture with the NRF/DST SARChl chair Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, Arts of Africa and Global Souths research program in the Department of Fine Art, Rhodes University. His research is on invisible performances of the everyday in public spaces, migration, social protests, art interventionism, feminist, and queer theory.
As a performance artist, Sange’s work takes a queer and decolonial approach to performance-making that is concerned with deconstructing and rethinking public spaces pulsating with remnants of colonial legacy, and race-based segregation in post-apartheid South Africa. Engaging with public spaces, Sange utilises queer aesthetics to imagine a queer utopia in spaces marked by colonial and apartheid narratives. As an emerging curator, He co-curated a multimedia exhibition titled Siphethe Iinyembezi Ezeminyaka (2023), and as a theatre performer, he has performed in the National Arts Festival Buyani (2022) written and directed by Siyabulela Javu, Breaking the Curse choreographed by Acty Tang. Queering Landscape (2023) and WE ARE EVERYHWERE (2024) A body of work consisting of Public art interventions and Performative Photographs. Sange mostly works with his soul friend Ezona Njokweni on performance works, photographic works, curating, and writing.

 

 

 

 

 

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