Imiphindo kwaXhosa
Episodes
Ukusonga
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Xa sithetha ngemigobo/imigoqo, sithetha ngantoni? Sigoba ntoni? Kuvele ntoni?What is bent when we speak of imigoqo? What surfaces when we turn, twist,...
Bonus: Incoko nomboniso kuGatyana
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On 25 August 2023, the UN/FOLDING_RE/FOLDING_FOLDED: Imiphindo kwaXhosa production team returned kuGatyana to host a listening session with the podcas...
Episode 10: Inkcubeko Yakwantu
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we spend time with uAzola Krweqe, a curator and visual practitioner whose work spans Cape Town and her paternal home in Nkanga, Willo...
Episode 9: UN/Folding at the Willowvale Arts Center (W.A.C)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Willowvale Arts Center is a creative hub located onthe outskirts of the remote town of Willowvale. Established in 2008 by the Department of Sports...
Episode 8: Ukugotywa kweelwimi
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What do the slippages of fashion look like? What happens to the voids that form between urban and rural, past and present, individual and communal? In...
Episode 7: Umbhinqo
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Umbhinqo: Kubhinqa abatheni xa kutheni?Narrated by uMama Makholi, a revered maker at the Willowvale Arts Center, this episode brings us into the intri...
Episode 6: Iintsimbi iyathetha
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yonke into iyathetha. Netsimbi le iyathetha.This episode honours beadwork not simply as adornment, but as archive—a living, breathing language held ...
Episode 5: Imiphindo ephilisayo (interlude)
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What can creative practice offer a displaced spirit? How might making—through word, thread, voice, or movement—become a ritual of return?This inte...
Episode 4: Unxibe ntoni? Ithetha ntoni?
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we take up clothing as language—as a material vocabulary that speaks across generations. Guided by community elders and local Maker...
Songa
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A bridge. A break. A spiral.This episode unfolds as a reflexive interlude—a moment of return and resonance. SONGA dwells in the sonic and poetic tex...
Episode 3: The Scene of Dress
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode marks a shift—from gathering and observing, to sensing and becoming. We begin to see how the folds of Xhosa dress and ritual are not me...
Episode 2: Imnyama ibenomgca omhlophe
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Imnyama ibenomgca omhlophe.”In this textured episode, we are guided by uTat’ Mangaliso Jafta—community elder, social entrepreneur, and former...
Episode 1: Uhambo
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UN/FOLDING_RE/FOLDING_FOLDED: Imiphindo kwaXhosaWhat do we carry when we move through rites of passage? What dresses us, not only in fabric, but in re...