Balindile ka Ngcobo
Balindile ka Ngcobo (she/her) is a South African performer, theatre-maker, writer and scholar.
She is a PhD candidate in the Dramaturgies in the Afterlife of Violence research group at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Here, she thinks and makes work around the afterlife of the colonial exhibition.
Her work specifically reimagines postcolonial representations, mythologisations and meanings of (the) Black African female body as a site and repository for violence and its memory, and seeks to articulate an aesthetics of radical hope and liberatory joy.
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