Smamkele Mentyisi

Smamkele Mentyisi is a writer and performance artist from Khayelitsha, Cape Town. He holds a BA (Hons) in Theatre & Performance Studies (Majoring in Theatre Making) from the University of Cape Town. Smamkele’s work explores queerness, masculinity and ancestral spirituality in a post-apartheid South Africa. The work utilizes, sonic psychedelia, image collages, and performative installations. Smamkele has performed in Infecting the City (2019), Body Politics (2018), Live Art Acarde (2019), Impulse CPT (2019)