{"id":8370,"date":"2019-07-13T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=8370"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T13:23:02","slug":"cotterrell-ubumuntu-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/cotterrell-ubumuntu-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mother Wall&#8217; &#8211; Professor David Cotterrell&#8217;s new production presented at the Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity, Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DavidCotterrell\/~3\/brTCy09CS2w\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email\">Ubumuntu &#8211; 13.07.19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David and Ru will be presenting their new production, <em>Mother Wall<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ubumuntuartsfestival.com\/news\/\">Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity<\/a> in Kigali, Rwanda this weekend. The play is a collaboration with the actors Nadie Kammallaweera and Akalanka Prabharshawa from <a href=\"http:\/\/Www.stages.lk\">Stages<\/a>, the visual artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/Www.iangouldstone.com\">Ian Gouldstone<\/a> and the composer Ranil Goonawardena. The project is developed with support from Piumi Wijesundara and Nipuni Sharadha.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/12\/2019-COTTERRELL-Mother-Wall-Ubumuntu.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8371\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/cotterrell-ubumuntu-2019\/2019-cotterrell-mother-wall-ubumuntu\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/12\/2019-COTTERRELL-Mother-Wall-Ubumuntu.jpg?fit=969%2C726&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"969,726\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2019 COTTERRELL Mother Wall &amp;#8211; Ubumuntu\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;2019 COTTERRELL Mother Wall &amp;#8211; Ubumuntu.jpg&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;2019 COTTERRELL Mother Wall &amp;#8211; Ubumuntu.jpg&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/12\/2019-COTTERRELL-Mother-Wall-Ubumuntu.jpg?fit=860%2C644&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8371 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/12\/2019-COTTERRELL-Mother-Wall-Ubumuntu.jpg?resize=860%2C644&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2019 COTTERRELL Mother Wall - Ubumuntu.jpg\" width=\"860\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/12\/2019-COTTERRELL-Mother-Wall-Ubumuntu.jpg?w=969&amp;ssl=1 969w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/12\/2019-COTTERRELL-Mother-Wall-Ubumuntu.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/12\/2019-COTTERRELL-Mother-Wall-Ubumuntu.jpg?resize=768%2C575&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The production charts the obscelescence of a great fortification, the decay of the ideology that provoked its manifestation and the disillusionment of its defenders. <em>Mother Wall <\/em>follows last year\u2019s production, <a href=\"http:\/\/ubumuntuartsfestival.com\/2018\/10\/06\/thought-curfew\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Thought Curfew<\/em><\/a>, as the second part of a visual and performing art trilogy allegorically considering constructs of division and fear.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/Www.empathyandrisk.com\">Empathy &amp; Risk<\/a> and realised with support from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/research\/global-challenges-research-fund\/\">Global Challenge Research Fund<\/a> and Sheffield Hallam University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/research\/specialisms\/cultural-communication-and-computing-research-institute\/research-centres\/art-and-design-research-centre\">Art and Design Research Centre.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubumuntu &#8211; 13.07.19 David and Ru will be presenting their new production, Mother Wall,\u00a0at the Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity in Kigali, Rwanda this weekend. The play is a collaboration with the actors Nadie Kammallaweera and Akalanka Prabharshawa from Stages, the visual artist, Ian Gouldstone and the composer Ranil Goonawardena. The project is developed with support from Piumi Wijesundara and Nipuni [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":8372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,891,1085,109,1398,1396,1395,892,1390,1397,1394],"class_list":["post-8370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-david-cotterrell","tag-empathy-risk","tag-fine-art-research","tag-gcrf","tag-kigali","tag-mother-wall","tag-ruwanthie-de-chickera","tag-rwanda","tag-stages","tag-ubumuntu-festival-of-humanity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/12\/2019-COTTERRELL-Mother-Wall-Ubumuntu-Banner.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2b0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9305,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/ubumuntu-arts-festival-transmission-cotterrell\/","url_meta":{"origin":8370,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Transmission&#8217; &amp; &#8216;COMMONS Dialogues&#8217; &#8211; Professor David Cotterrell at 2020&#8217;s virtual Ubumuntu Arts Festival of Humanity","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"17\/07\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Ubumuntu 2020 Friday 17 to Sunday 19 July 2020 Free registration online here. 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