Metropolar at Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees 2024: a review

“‘What happens to a mine / When all the gold is gone?’ Weaving together 35 minutes of hand-drawn animations and a spoken-word script created 10 years ago, the multimedia project Metropolar is back in the form of IIIFoet – Jotam Schoeman (animation film, guitar and vocals), Modise Sekgothe (narrator and vocals) and James Robb (sound design). The three artists come together to create a soundscape that contains the tug and pull of the interconnectedness and apartness of the South African experience and the polarities contained within the country’s most commanding metropole, Johannesburg.”