One and the Many Conversation Series 2 & 3

Join us this February for Part 2 and Part 3 of the One and the Many Conversation Series, an ongoing dialogue that deepens engagement with the exhibition’s central themes which explore relationships between the individual and the collective. These conversations bring together artists, scholars, and cultural thinkers to unpack ideas of collectivity, identity, and shared futures, creating space for reflection, exchange, and critical thought within and beyond the gallery. The programme is made possible by the support of the Australian High Commission in South Africa.

PART 2    Friday, 27 February 2026 | 11:00 - 13:00

Residues and Reveries: Assemblages of Belonging 

Katlego Tlabela and Stephanie Conradie | Moderated by Keneilwe Chuene

This conversation highlights the generative tension between the practices of Katlego Tlabela and Stephanie Conradie, whose works occupy distinct yet intersecting conceptual terrains within The One and the Many exhibition. Katlego Tlabela’s exploration of aspiration, class performance, and Black visibility is set in dialogue with Conradie’s material excavations of domestic life, cultural inheritance, and the residues of coloniality. Together, their practices offer a layered meditation on how identities are constructed, inherited, and contested.

This conversation invites students, who are emerging art practitioners from Pretoria’s universities, to consider how contemporary South African art navigates the interplay between individual agency and collective memory.

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PART 3    Saturday, 28 February 2026 | 10:00-16:00

Towards Other Pedagogies: Museum Education and Higher Learning

Dr. Adéle Adendorff, Prof Johan Thom, Dr Delene Human, DR Obakeng Kgongoane Assoc. Prof Rory du Plessis   | Moderated by Puleng Plessie

Part 3 of the One and the Many Conversation Series launches with five University of Pretoria lecturers and practitioners whose teaching, research, and collaborative work have played a crucial role in activating One and the Many exhibition as a living pedagogical space. The conversation asks how exhibitions can move beyond display to become shared spaces of experimentation, reflection, and co-production, and what other pedagogies might emerge at the intersection of art, education, and public engagement.

Monumental Gestures, Making Large-Scale Art and History

Ledelle Moe, Inga Somdyala, and Goldendean | Moderated by Storm Janse van Rensburg

This session interrogates how monumentality allows for the amplification of marginalised histories and the forging of new visual languages. The panel discussion features artists from One and the Many whose contributions to the exhibition take on monumental proportions, inviting a conversation about why scale matters, and how it transforms narrative, space, and memory. The session will explore how these artists move beyond the frame to create immersive, historically engaged works that confront viewers with the vastness of time, trauma, beauty, and resistance.

Vocal Sounds of the coherent and the non-coherent – Sounds made in the image of Violent Sonics by Gabi Motuba

Part 3 concludes with Gabi Motuba, Johannesburg based jazz singer and composer, presenting a sonic reflection of the One and The Many. She will be exploring what it may mean to interpret, sonically, the visual works exhibited at the Altar theme of the exhibition; to temporarily suspend the moment of sacred sounds and thinking about the effect of the ecological footprints of ‘violent sonics’ and the ways in which they have contorted and reshaped our relationship to ‘the sacred’. 

Motuba’s singing references sonics emerging from the South African “post-apartheid” ecological footprint, attempting to represent and think through the idea of violent foreign amplified sounds and their auditory implications through the voice.

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The events are free to attend.

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