The Africa Open Institute

In association with Prof Lou-Marie Kruger, Helene Van Aswegen of the Book Workshop & UNISA Press’s Flame Series

Invites you to the launch of

PASSAGEWORKS

Ari Sitas’ genre-busting “book”

It is to be launched by William Kentridge and Sarah Mosoetsa at Welgevallen Community Psychology Clinic, Suidwal Street, Stellenbosch on 6 August 2025 19:00.

 

Contributions by Andries Bezuidenhoudt (sound & visuals), Coral Bijoux (installation performance) Karen Press (ideas and more), Sumangala Damodaran (on screen to augment its ragas) & of course Helene Van Aswegen (whose hands wove the magic)

What is Passageworks?

It is a singular book. Anti-Gutenberg: It is one copy!

It is an artbook.

It will be free for all.

It is (for political reasons) a fictional journey.

It is an archive of a Southern emergence.

It is an echo of Benjamin’s Passagen-Werk.

It is about dealing with the Ghosts of the Past.

It is a musical constellation.

It is about a future Humanitude.

It is an exhale from the frail lungs of the COVID pandemic.

Stephanus Muller (AOI) and Lou-Marie Kruger (Welgevallen)

https://arts.sun.ac.za/files/2025/07/Passageworks-Book-Launch-1.pdf