Abstract
In this interview with Bryce Lease, Jay Pather discusses the multiple festivals he curates in South Africa, the Netherlands, and France. These include Infecting the City Public Art Festival, the ICA Live Art Festival, Afrovibes, and Season Africa 2020. Focusing on African contexts for performance and congregation, Pather discusses the challenges and opportunities for collaboration and audience engagement during the Covid pandemic, as well as the uneven forms of ecological activism between the global North and South.
Notes
1. This interview took place on 5 May 2022 on Zoom.
2. nora chipaumire, ‘Artist Statement’, ICA Online, https://icaonline.net/artists/nora-chipaumire/ (accessed May 24, 2022).
3. Cited from Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulirch Obrist, ‘“The Earth is Trembling”: Édouard Glissant in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist’, 032 Magazine, December 21, 2021, https://032c.com/magazine/edouard-glissant-and-hans-ulrich-obrist (accessed May 24, 2022).