An Intimate Session: Xabiso Vili

Xabiso Vili is a multi award-winning performer, writer, new media artist, producer, digital strategist and social activist. His writings explore his inner world relating to the outer world. Xabiso has been published in various anthologies and has performed on four continents. He is currently involved in researching and creating methodology for how the writing process can be utilized as a therapeutic method. His debut album, “Eating My Skin“, was released in 2016, followed by his one-man show “Black Boi Be”, and his first poetry collection “Laughing In My Father’s Voice”, released in 2018.

In 2019, he was awarded a Digital Lab Africa Prize and created the Augmented Reality exhibition “Re/Member Your Descendants” which examines how young South Africans relate to their ancestors and descendants. This premiered in Paris at the NewImages Festival, alongside his first Projection Mapping installation “Chosi Chosi” as part of his residency at Cité Internationale Des Arts in 2021. "Re/Member Your Descendants" has also been exhibited at Fak'ugesi Digital Innovation Festival in October, 2021. Vili recenty won the Poetry Africa Slam Jam 2021 competition and as a result, will be representing South Africa at the World Poetry Slam Championship in Brussels in 2022.

Read the full profile here: http://xabisovili.epizy.com/about-me/

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