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zethu Matebeni Afriquia Activist Politics and Performance
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zethu Matebeni responds to 'Family Tree' by Mojisola Adebayo, connecting this performance work with Black and Afriquia struggles across time. Through poetic exploration Matebeni weaves Adebayo's work with that of Winnie Mandela, Sarah Baartman, Diana Ferris - and the significance of trees to the archives of Black women. • zethu Matebeni is an associate professor in sociology and South Africa Research Chair in Sexualities, Genders and Queer Studies at the University of Fort Hare. zethu has published extensively in African queer studies, HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ rights in Africa. zethu’s recent publications include Beyond the Mountain: queer life in ‘Africa’s gay capital’ (UNISA Press, 2021), the co-edited volume Queer in Africa (Routledge, 2018) and Reclaiming Afrikan (Modjaji Books, 2014). zethu is actively involved in queer activism in South Africa, is director and producer of documentary films, writes short essays and poetry which have been published in numerous journals, books and blogs including blacklooks.org and AWID.org. • Mojisola Adebayo (BA, MA, PhD. FRSL FHEA) has been creating theatre for 30 years, working internationally from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. Her plays include Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey (Lyric Hammersmith), Muhammad Ali and Me (Ovalhouse), 48 Minutes for Palestine (Ashtar Theatre), Desert Boy (Albany Theatre), The Listeners (Pegasus Theatre), I Stand Corrected (Artscape), The Interrogation of Sandra Bland (Bush Theatre) and Wind / Rush Generation(s) (National Theatre, UK). Publications include Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One (Oberon Books), the co-written Theatre for Development Handbook (Pan Arts) as well as several academic chapters and contributions to play anthologies including Theatre in Times of Crisis (Bloomsbury Methuen). Mojisola is a Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, an Associate Artist of Black Lives, Black Words, Pan Arts, the Building the Anti-Racist Classroom collective and AICRE. She is an Honorary Fellow of Rose Bruford College, a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently on a research fellowship at University of Potsdam, Germany working on a collection of new projects addressing environmental racism, entitled White Climate. Mojisola is currently commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Coventry Belgrade Theatre. Her latest plays, STARS (Tamasha Theatre and ICA) and Family Tree (ATC and Young Vic) will be produced in 2022. Last but not least, Mojisola is proud to be co-editing Black British Queer Plays and Practioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre, with Professor Lynette Goddard (Bloomsbury Methuen, 2023). • This presentation was part of 'Afriquia: Activist Politics and Performance', with Lynette Goddard, Mojisola Adebayo, Topher Campbell, and zethu Matebeni, 9 December 2021. • This one-day event explored Afriquia, as developed by the theatre artist and scholar Mojisola Adebayo, as a conceptual lens for considering queerness and African diaspora in contemporary artistic and activist research practices. The programme was organised around engaging with key works including 'Stars' and 'Family Tree' (performance texts by Adebayo), and 'FETISH' by afro-queer filmmaker artist and writer, Topher Campbell. The day also included contributions and conversations with scholar of Black British performance Lynette Goddard, and South African queer activist and scholar zethu Matebeni. • ‘Afriquia: Activist Politics and Performance’ was organised by Lynette Goddard (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) with Giulia Casalini, Cristina Fernandes Rosa, Eleanor Roberts, and P. A. Skantze (University of Roehampton, UK). It is part of the Techne Conflux series ‘Queer Feminist Currents’, a two-year collaboration amongst researchers at the University of Roehampton and Royal Holloway, University of London. A series of research events are designed to provide a framework for interrogating key points of convergence and tension in contemporary queer, intersectional feminist and gender studies, decolonial critique, as well as theory and practice as interrelated. More information and documentation of previous events can be found at: https://queerfeministcurrents.wordpre...
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