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		<title>Growing consciousness – Kirstenbosch to host ICA Live Art Festival events that include talking to plants, making flower arrangements and plant-dyed cloth, and ghost tours…</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to recognise consciousness in all living things as we navigate the challenges of the Anthropocene? This is one of the urgent questions posed by this year’s in-person ICA Live Art Festival, which takes place in Cape Town from 19 March to 3 April 2022. The festival programme embraces several performances (amongst a line-up of 38 diverse works) that reference sentient beings. Fittingly, most of these performances are set to take place in Cape Town’s iconic botanical garden, Kirstenbosch. The famed landscaped grounds are home to a myriad species of plants, insects, birds, reptiles and other animals. Kirstenbosch National Botanical GardenImage Credit: Chanelle Adams But the irony of this setting is not lost on the festival’s curators and performers. In fact, they relish the opportunity to remind audiences that Kirstenbosch has a contested colonial past, and that our relationship with the fragile natural world remains complicated. The seven works will engage with plants, politics, and history, allowing audiences to see and experience Kirstenbosch – and plants – in a fresh way. “Kirstenbosch is mostly framed as a site of nature, but once we look at it as a place of work, it becomes clear that it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From ghost tours to sentient beings, the ICA Live Art Festival is back in the flesh!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 06:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we can attend in-person events once again, the Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) at UCT is hosting its flagship Live Art Festival (LAF) in the public spaces it is meant to serve. Our favourite biennial interdisciplinary event is back to disrupt and inspire! Desire Marea photo by Musa DlaminiNezimakade &#8211; Live at Alliance Française Ethekwini &#8220;Ghosts rupture time by reminding us of the unfaced, unrestituted and unresolved,” says performance artist Chanelle Adams of the part meditative journey, part ghost tour that she is scheduled to present at the 2022 ICA Live Art Festival (LAF). This is just one of numerous live art performances that will play an integral part of the festival, which runs from 19 March until 3 April 2022 and is located at multiple, intriguing sites across the city, including the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden. Like its counterparts on the programme, Adams’s performance Ghosts of Ravintsara/Camphor Trees has been created to challenge and extend the public’s experience of live art in a non-commercial environment. She describes the work as “an experiment in face-to-face encounters with ghosts&#8230; to release the future from historical horrors.” The artists taking part in the 38 productions in this groundbreaking festival will [...]]]></description>
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