Art Lexica's One Year Birthday

Wesley announces plans for the Artwork give-away to mark his 52nd episode. This week, he chats to Cape Town based author Lerato Lerry Scribess Sibanda about the recent National Arts Council sit in. This is our 52nd episode, meaning we've been running this podcast for exactly one year! Born out of lockdown, it remains one of Wesley's most successful project's since 2020. This is a podcast where we talk art and art processes. So check us out wherever you get your podcasts!TranscriptWesley: [00:00:00] Hi everybody. This is Wesley pepper and you're tuned to my podcast wesley pepper’s art Lexica and its brought to you by Spudcaster and baobulb. Yeah, man. Thanks for everybody for tuning in. If you're in the Southern part of.. if you’re in South Africa or the Southern part of the hemisphere, we are entering winter now and it's pretty chilly where I'm sitting and, uh, yeah.[00:00:35] So just bear with me. I might have a dripping nose and a Cough and winter related nonsense. So yeah, just bear with me regarding that. And then there also might be some unfortunate noise in the background, but , you can, yeah. [00:00:49] Anyway. Yeah. Just bear with me, please. For today. It won't [00:00:52] be too distracting though, but they will be something anyway, moving on to, um, to recap last week's episode, thanks to violette for coming through.[00:00:59] Um, and the book, Mulberry dreams, all the best with that, my sister. I really, really had fun talking to and talking to about all those, about the book and process and all of that I thought was really outstanding content. Uh, moving on to today's episode, uh, today we're talking to Lerato, uh, Sibanda, [00:01:16] she's originally [00:01:17] from, um, Pretoria, but she's now in Cape town.[00:01:21] She's a multi-disciplinary, [00:01:23] uh, artists, but she's mostly in the writing field. So she does a lot of poetry. Actually. I know her through the poetry and the journalism route through working through consciousness, that's you, that's it. [00:01:33] And we'll touch we'll. Um, we'll actually [00:01:34] touch base, um, with touch on that as well.[00:01:37] In what she, um, in, in her writing and all the work that she did for consciousness, um, as you guys know, I've been working with them for, or rather I've been involved with them for [00:01:47] the better part of 15, 16 years. So it's been awhile, [00:01:50] it's been awhile and we still, and we still around, [00:01:52] we still alive. So yeah, man, it's still consciousness.[00:01:54] Let's see what I'd say. Uh, yeah, you can still check it out. So we'll definitely touch [00:01:58] base with all that. Talk about [00:01:59] her writing processes and given that, um, um, that was the papers. Art later is almost a year old. Um, [00:02:05] with the recording of this episode, we'll touch base on some [00:02:07] about, uh, major themes, um, that I have, you know, that I spoke about throughout the, um, throughout the past 52 weeks, you know?[00:02:16] Uh, so we’re gonna touch base get Lerato’s, uh, opinion on some of the things like the tech boom, uh, the NAC sit-in and so on, but that will be the latter part of the interview. We're gonna be focusing on her. Uh, writing. I know she's, um, I've been listening to a YouTube channel, uh, [00:02:34] over the past week.[00:02:35] So she's been doing a lot of singing, which is really fantastic. She's got quite an interesting, I think, quite a [00:02:40] smooth, uh, voice. So we're going to be seeing what direction she's planning to go with that and her journalism of course. Um, she'd like, as I said, she did some interesting work for us on consciousness and, um, Yeah.[00:02:52] So she's a very smart...