Mthabisi Sithole & Lindiwe Matshikiza

Collaborative writing using methods of freewriting to a prompt, regular exchange via email, followed by a process of physically cutting up each other’s offerings to form new, combined experimental texts.

Mthabisi Sithole – Johannesburg-based poet. His writing is mostly concerned with the
shortcomings of translation. He approaches writing largely as a tool to consider
capacities/measures of temporal occupation and recognition in space. The implications
of collecting past, present and future through poetry continues to be a marker in
addressing the abovementioned. Mthabisi’s writing has been featured in Odd Magazine,
Ja. Magazine, Teesta Review: A Journal of poetry and Best New African Poets 2019.

Lindiwe Matshikiza – Artist working with writing, directing, & performance in a variety of
media and modes. She uses her background and training in theatre-making as a base
from which to approach other kinds of work, often collaborative, exploratory projects that
take on more than one form over time. Lindiwe’s writing has appeared in I’m in the bath
on all fours (Well Projects, Margate, UK, 2019); Between the Pillar and the Post – A
multilingual anthology of contemporary South African monologues and scenes
(Diartskonageng and Market Theatre Laboratory, 2019); and DEY (Writing Room, The
Reading Room Continues, Goethe-Institut, 2018) where she first collaborated with
Mthabisi Sithole.

date

March 28, 2022