Tales of History Retold Exhibition Opening - 05 Nov 2025

Описание: A few days prior to the Digital Humanities Culture and Technics Workshop (10-12 November 2025), 'Tales of History Retold', opened at Iyatsiba Gallery. In this exhibition - co-curated by Kim Gurney and Carlyn Strydom - eight artists created artworks in response to an artefact they have selected from the archive of Cape Town’s oldest arts association and non-profit gallery, the Association for Visual Arts (AVA). Featuring: Alka Dass, Hasan Essop, Husain Essop, Ange-Frédéric Koffi, Kitso Lelliott, Emma Minkley, Mandisi Nkomo and Scott Eric Williams. The exhibition project includes a bespoke limited edition zine created by Williams, a digital catalogue of artworks, and curatorial walkabouts open to the public – to be advertised.

The exhibition opened on Wednesday 5 November at 18h00, with Olga Speakes (AVA director) and Premesh Lalu (CHR) as speakers. It ran until 28 November at Iyatsiba Gallery. On Saturday 8 November, there was a public zine-making workshop at Iyatsiba Lab led by Scott Eric Williams.

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About the Chair
The UK-SA Chair in Digital Humanities, held by Prof. Premesh Lalu, weclomed international scholars to Cape Town in November 2025 to attend a three-day roundtable at Iyatsiba Lab in Woodstock.
This workshopping of ideas informs the way forward on a long-term joint research programme between the British Academy and South Africa’s National Research Foundation. This newly awarded Digital Humanities Chair engages with the co-evolution of the human and technology under an umbrella term, ‘Culture & Technics’. Its thematic structure is broadly conceived for the next few years to run along four interconnected lines: tech & the urban; tech & aesthetics; tech & digital arts; and tech & the university.

This inaugural workshop gathered together invited experts from around the world whose work variously operates at the intersection of technology and aesthetics, in conversation with research fellows and staff at UWC’s Centre for Humanities Research – a postgraduate interdisciplinary hub. Three days of dialogue were dispersed with visits to museums, art studios and a public art walk in the city centre, led by Kim Gurney, to contextualise debates. This included a visit to the studio of artists Igshaan Adams and Ralph Borland. The idea is to cross-pollinate disciplinary views and bring to life the meaning of ‘iyatsiba’ (‘it is jumping’), the concilience that is possible when different modes of sense-making come together.

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