Winner of the 2024 DMCA

I’thandi Munro is an award winning professional performance and visual artist. She has a BFA from NSCAD and movement is at her core of making. Munro uses the representation of line and lineage as underlying concepts in her fine art, craft, photography and dance. Continuously merging different mediums into finished pieces there is always a sense of multiplicity within her work, she leaves space for her pieces to naturally evolve through reaction and discussion. Munro creates an ever-changing body of work that can be explored and realized in different ways.

Freeform

This piece is based on the “freedom” to move and Improve within structures and steel wire restrictions. As a choreographer, mover, and metalsmith I like to combine mediums to create full landscapes of thought.

How do you move freely within a restricted or confined space? What does this look like visually, how does this impact the way you navigate the space around you. How do you achieve freedom when your parameters have been set and you must find a way to not only exist, but to thrive? Is their beauty within confinement? What does that beauty look like when the restrains have been removed?

As a racialized person living in a post colonial society, these are questions and realities that I can never break free from. Using movement has been a healing source of acceptance for these bonds placed upon our communities.

As an improvisational choreographer, I like to play with the deep thoughts that might provoke change? Or help others to achieve peace within their own situations.

How can our pathways be seen for others to learn from?

Where do we elevate to once we have reached the end of what has already been created and paved?

Using Freeform movement within wire structures I create during improvisation, I hope to reform the movements I make as a way of embracing the histories, the traumas, the bounded lifestyles I have no choice but to accept, redesign, and move forward from.