‘Lo que sabe el agua’ (2026) is a video installation, part of a larger body of work that explores the knowledge and guidance of water, seeing water as ancestral futurity, and as a form of counter mapping that refuses colonial border regimes and knowledge systems. Lo que sabe el agua translates as ‘What water knows’ …
Photos: Ashley Walters, Poem: Toni Steward This collaborative walk and spatial intervention through performance, sound, poetry and alternative forms of collective mapping took place under the rubric of a public art festival put together to commemorate the centenary of the 1913 Land Act. The LAND festival, put together by the Gordon Institute of Performing …
As part of the public program of the LAND public art festival and symposium, Farouk and Nicole Sarmiento curated a set of site-sensitive film screenings of films by Kim Munsamy, Sebástian Porras, Heidi Grunebaum and Mark Kaplan. The films were screened in historic buildings in Cape Town’s Central Business District, which carry within them histories of …