Francois Knoetze’s cinematic installation Core Dump excavates the digital debris of techno-capitalism, exposing the violent afterlives of discarded technology across the Global South. Leora Farber cultivates living moss over the remnants of a colonial dinner table, a living monument to biopolitical entanglement and vegetal agency. Masimba Hwati and Michael Gould, performing as The Zebra Collective, sonically resurrect the cultural and ecological trauma of the Kariba Dam, invoking the spirit of the Zambezi through a haunting, multi-sensory score. Nolan Oswald Dennis transforms Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary texts into living compost, with a bioactive earthworm system that literalises the decomposition and regeneration of radical thought. Tawanda Takura mines the shoe dumps of Zimbabwe to sculpt uncanny new life forms as survivors of economic collapse and creators of post-collapse futures. Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr push the ethics of biotechnology to its limits, culturing animal tissue to recreate primitive tools and question the very essence of evolution, life and objecthood. Oupa Sibeko uses honey, sea salt and his own body in ritual performances that transform pain into healing, and residue into renewal. Usha Seejarim’s monumental installation of hand-bound grass brooms forms a living archive of ecological memory, domestic labour and the poetics of care.

Together, these artists transform detritus into possibility, and resistance into form. Re:Fuse-Ability is not just an exhibition; it’s a manifesto for art in the age of planetary crisis where waste is treated as a haunted, living material.

This exhibition forms part of the Bioart + Design Africa research programme of the VIAD Research Centre at UJ which investigates new materialities through bioart, indigenous knowledge systems and decolonial methodologies.

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