Bundanon

Kuda Mapeza is an interdisciplinary artist,  working as a musician, writer, actor, director and youth facilitator.

With focus on empowering people of colour telling stories of power, Kuda’s work is heavily inspired by mythology, cultural underbelly, surrealism and Afrofuturism. Kuda’s approach to their work is modelled after the cultural necessity of sankofa, a Ghanaian word from the Akan tribe meaning to ‘look back in order to look forward’, or ‘fetch what is at risk of being left behind’, resulting in definant-hybridisation, analogue-meets-digital, past-meets-future, real-meets-unreal essense to all of their artistic endeavours.

In Residence at Bundanon

Kuda Mapeza has been commissioned by Malthouse Theatre to write the 2024 play for the Suitcase Series education program. Their show, Who No Kno Go Kno is an AfroFuturist tale of climate change, and exact what we must believe in order to continue heading toward predicted extinction.

The heat of the sun has grown too heavy. Night movement only. Fire in the sky might melt the skin off your bones. Banished to a bunker on the side of a rock face, the lives of Mother Nature’s children can only be filled with the mythology of a world gone by. In a desperate effort to challenge the tall and terrifying stories they’ve been told, one of them breaks out—at sunrise..