Dragging a shack on wheels from Khayelitsha to Cape Town’s CBD, Zimba films the journey and projects the video onto a shack installation in his piece, ‘Moriti wa Kganya’. Interrogating space and body in relation to light, the work explores subverts and reimagines shack dwellings, using sensors and modern Eurocentric lights to disrupt and politicise life in the shack. The focus of the project is to look at how light can bring a sense of dignity while creating a livable space for people.

Actor, writer, director, researcher, art teacher and an interdisciplinary artist, Mthuthuzeli ‘Blaze’ Zimba is passionate about storytelling. Much of his work focuses on transgression and disruption to initiate dialogue to confront and address socio-political issues. Holding a Master’s Degree in Theatre and Performance from the University of Cape Town, Zimba has written, directed and produced several theatre plays, and curated live arts projects at internationally acclaimed performance festivals in Cape Town. Zimba uses his art to imagine black marginalised people out of their bondages of destitution.