Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa

Professor Tamar Garb is Durning Professor in the History of Art at UCL. She has published widely on questions of gender and sexuality in Modern and Contemporary Art as well as on photography from Africa, the work of women artists and feminist aesthetics. Her curatorial practice includes Gauguin: Maker of Myth, Tate, London 2011, Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, V&A, London 2011, Conversations in Letters & Lines: William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh 2016, and Beyond the Binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt, Walther Coll. 2023. Sinazo Chiya is a writer and associate director at Stevenson, based in Cape Town. She is among the 2019 writing fellows at the Institute of Creative Arts at UCT. She is the editor of Mawande Ka Zenzile’s monograph, Uhambo luyazilawula and has contributed texts to publications by Penny Siopis and Dada Khanyisa. In 2018 Chiya published 9 More Weeks, a book of artist interviews and has previously written for Art Africa, Artthrob, Adjective and the Center for Curating the Archive. Tandazani Dhlakama, is curator at Zeitz MOCAA. She joined the museum in 2017 and has been involved in the Zeitz MOCAA Centre for Art Education as Education Manager with special focus on public programming and tertiary engagement. She recently curated Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection at El Espacio 23 (2020), Five Bhobh: Painting at the End of an Era (2018) and co-curated Nobukho Nqaba’s Izicwangciso Zezethu... (2019) at Zeitz MOCAA. Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela holds the South African National Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma. Her work focuses on exploring ways in which the impact of that oppression and violence across generations in the aftermath of historical trauma and the relationship between remorse and forgiveness. Her recent honors include: fellowship at the Harvard Radcliffe; Honorary Doctor of Laws from Rhodes University (2019), and since 2017, she has been Research Advisor and Global Scholar at Queen’s University, Belfast.