Katlego Letsholonyane writes and performs the complications of Modisaotsile’s walkthrough two worlds - the natural and the spiritual. Modisaotsile discerns vivid messages, feels the palpable world of spirits and saunters the transdimensional journey through the voice of his late grandfather.
Odd Portraits Of This Place explores the convergence, co-mingling and cross-pollination of performance and found space as sites for animate exhibition of both place and performance. The series employs the articulation and interaction of space, body and action, and their impact on each other when captured in film. A key component of this project is the use of film, sound and language to create vibrant dialogic miniature performance films shot in different places across Gauteng. Series 1 of Odd Portraits of this Place launches 5 works that are a response by various artists to themes of sound and movement.
Conceptualiser & Writer | Katlego Letsholonyane
Performer | Katlego Letsholonyane
Translation | Phala Ookeditse Phala
Music | Sereetsi & The Natives
Composer | Tomeletso Sereetsi
Place | Kagiso (with thanks to Tebogo Mosome)
Director of Cinematography & Editing | Noah Cohen
Sound Recording & Designer | Zain Vally
Transport | Curiocity: Boss Lekhoaba
Production Manager | Dimakatso Motholo
Curator of Odd Portraits of this Place | Phala O. Phala
Co-Director | Bronwyn Lace