...in conversation with I-HEART / CAPE TOWN .

Last month we had a lovely visit from the guys from I-HEART Magazine . They were doing an issue on whatitdid in the city I've been calling my home for the past four years ... the fairest Cape Town . I am so lucky to been ion the presence of people that i have worked with under the spirit of collaboration ... thinking of the Spoek Mathambos , KopeFiggins , Bee Diamondhead , Petit Noir , RhaRha Nembhard  et al . makes me wanna do this forever. now go get your copy. x apr and studio

...ilulwane 2011-2012 @ What If The World / Gallery .

Ilulwane Series I - 

Athi-Patra Ruga 2012

Archival inkJet print on Cotton Rag 

142 × 117 cm

courtesy of the artist and whatiftheworld/gallery

Ilulwane - Performa

WHATIFTHEWORLD / GALLERY, in association with PERFORMA 11 and the Museum of African Art New York, is pleased to announce Ilulwane, Athi-Patra Ruga’s first performance in New York. Ilulwane is a synchronized-swimming performance inspired by Alvin Baltrop’s 1970s and 80s photographs. It reflects on the passage of time in both New York and in the artist’s own Xhosa culture, drawing on themes of Xhosa initiation ceremonies,and the AIDS crisis and challenging definitions of masculinity. Ilulwane is co-presented with the Museum for African Art, in Long Island City, New York. The musical score of Ilulwane is a collaborative composition between Athi-Patra Ruga and acclaimed musician Spoek Mathambo, recent winner of the Young Directors Award (in conjunction with Pieter Hugo, and Michael Cleary), at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

© Athi-Patra Ruga and studio [2011]