After The Storming came Threads of Sorrow, reflecting the confluence of different
media and transcontinental conversations about a common postmodern,
postcolonial predicament. Against the backdrop of rising fundamentalisms and
movements of authoritarian restorations, cartographies of colonialism and
human migration, Threads of Sorrow was a weaving together of an alternative
narrative of the past. In particular, it looked at the role of women in making
meaning and expressing creativity despite conditions of violence, servitude and
slavery. Thus, Threads of Lament included the colours and textures of survival, of
seeking the new: the world may be blind – but ‘we find each other there like mole
rats /even under /the lands the harsh wind pummels.’ ‘The woman, ‘trader in
hungers / she grew strong’.
All compositions by Ahsan Ali, Brydon Bolton, Jurgen Brauninger, Sumangala Damodaran, Sazi Dlamini, Pritam Ghosal, Reza Khota, Tlale Makhene, Lungiswa Plaatjies, Tina Schouw, Vivek Narayanan, Karen Press, Sabitha Satchi, Ari Sitas, and Mandi Poefficient Vundla,
