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Freespace Ensemble presents: Dance of the Neutral Angels

Freespace Ensemble is a mutable outfit of improvisers combining music, dance, theatre and performance more broadly to foster a participatory creative space which brings to life the idea of a ‘changing same’ reality. Produced in collaboration with OnePark and Creative Knowledge Resources, this instalment features Kanu Ntshoko (drums), Sean Sanby (bass), Reza Khota (guitar), Simbad (tenor saxophone), Hypocrite (conductor) and Futurist (DJ).

Posted: March 20, 2025 by thisthingisplural

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Conversations with I and I

This piece was produced as a creative response to the work and ideas presented in ‘Changing same: An ontology of spirit’, an ongoing research engagement concerned with the nature of reality.

Posted: February 13, 2023 by thisthingisplural

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Freespace Ensemble at Hiddingh Hall Pt.4

Brought to you in collaboration with People’s Education, and as part of the UCT Decolonial School (2018), “Freespace in the bush of cosmospirits” is the first iteration of the Freespace Ensemble. Making use of Freespace as a discursive platform with possibilities for knowledge production, it brings forward an argument about ontological reality, drawing on clues in the world as we concretely experience it.

Posted: March 10, 2022 by thisthingisplural

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Freespace Ensemble at Hiddingh Hall Pt.3

Brought to you in collaboration with People’s Education, and as part of the UCT Decolonial School (2018), “Freespace in the bush of cosmospirits” is the first iteration of the Freespace Ensemble. Making use of Freespace as a discursive platform with possibilities for knowledge production, it brings forward an argument about ontological reality, drawing on clues in the world as we concretely experience it.

Posted: March 10, 2022 by thisthingisplural

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Conspiracies: CON006

Created by Matsang in connection with Spheres of Conspiracy, Conspiracies is a series of films and sound design pieces which draws on Freespace, the principles of maximalism and existing narratives related to the notion of “conspiracy” to build new ones.

Posted: February 17, 2022 by thisthingisplural

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Conspiracies: CON001

Created by Matsang in connection with Spheres of Conspiracy, Conspiracies is a series of films and sound design pieces which draws on Freespace, the principles of maximalism and existing narratives related to the notion of “conspiracy” to build new ones.

Posted: February 17, 2022 by thisthingisplural

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Excerpt from Freespace in the bush of cosmospirits

Brought to you in collaboration with People’s Education, and as part of the UCT Decolonial School (2018), “Freespace in the bush of cosmospirits” is the first iteration of the Freespace Ensemble. Making use of Freespace as a discursive platform with possibilities for knowledge production, it brings forward an argument about ontological reality, drawing on clues in the world as we concretely experience it.

Posted: February 10, 2022 by thisthingisplural

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Freespace Ensemble at Hiddingh Hall Pt.2

Brought to you in collaboration with People’s Education, and as part of the UCT Decolonial School (2018), “Freespace in the bush of cosmospirits” is the first iteration of the Freespace Ensemble. Making use of Freespace as a discursive platform with possibilities for knowledge production, it brings forward an argument about ontological reality, drawing on clues in the world as we concretely experience it.

Posted: February 9, 2022 by thisthingisplural

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Freespace Ensemble at Hiddingh Hall Pt.1

Brought to you in collaboration with People’s Education, and as part of the UCT Decolonial School (2018), “Freespace in the bush of cosmospirits” is the first iteration of the Freespace Ensemble. Making use of Freespace as a discursive platform with possibilities for knowledge production, it brings forward an argument about ontological reality, drawing on clues in the world as we concretely experience it.

Posted: February 9, 2022 by thisthingisplural

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Rude People’s Consortium

Feelings Radio Project (2019 – 2023) Founded in 2019 by record collector and DJ Joey Modiba (aka Lirubishi) and performer-conductor Malik Ntone Edjabe (aka Hypocrite), Feelings Radio Project (FRP) was a pop-up radio and performance experiment combining music, sound-collage, improvisation and open dialogue to investigate and “get in our feelings” about a range of issues

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Posted: November 10, 2021 by thisthingisplural

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