8: Thenjiwe Nkosi

Voices from SA

This week my guest is the artist Thenjiwe Nkosi. She was born in the USA to a South African father and an American mother. The family moved back to South Africa in 1992. Our discussion covers a number of topics including identity and race, migration, creativity and commercialism and individuality vs collaboration. She tells a nice story about enlisting some skate punks in Bayreuth into one of her video projects.

"I would love to be making quite radical works that incites action or are in themselves action. That is something that I have not yet figured out. That is an expectation that I have of myself to be radical in my practice."

Thenjiwe is exhibiting here Heroes series, which we touch on during our discussion, in the Reading Room at the Goethe Institute from 5April to 22 June.