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Reflecting on current realities of shrinking civic freedoms, political aggression and vulnerable democracies, this lecture focusses on the live art archive and Live Art Network Africa (LANA) under the stewardship of the Institute for Creative Arts in Cape Town. It offers analyses of specific multi-sited interventions that address the reproduction of socio-spatial entrapment, which is defined herein as the compounded effect of persistent territorialism and accumulation, epistemicide and cultural erasure, as well as economic and political despair that keeps injustice recursive. Although the archive is constituted of live art realised in the city of Cape Town, this lecture reflects on the mobility politics emerging in the artistic interventions by artists across the African continent in relation to different forms of entrapment and the pursuit of civic freedom.

Prof Nomusa Makhubu is professor in Art History at the University of Cape Town. She is both an art historian and an artist. Her research focus is on African popular culture, photography, interventionism, live art and socially-engaged art. With her work she won numerous awards both in the academic sphere and the arts. Makhubu is the founder of Creative Knowledge Resources (CKR) – an open access platform for social justice arts. She has co-curated exhibitions (including a co-curation of the South African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy), and has published Creative Books and research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and book volumes.