This podcast sets up the conditions in which something is bound to happen, emerging from the ceaseless creative projects and processes of South African multi-disciplinary artist and educator Jaco van der Merwe. No rules, many experiments, many conversations, many audio rabbit-holes.
Episodes
May 30, 2023
May 30, 2023
1 hr 41 min
After 14 years of banging out conscious Afrikaans electro-rap, Bittereinder has hung up the gloves. I took my Zoom H1 recorder along to the final festival show of this band which has been such a foundational part of my life as an artist and thinker. I recorded my thoughts on the way to the show, and after the show, and you can also hear a hotel-room set-list-figuring-out-session, as well as some clips from the live show itself, recorded from within the audience.
Mar 20, 2022
Mar 20, 2022
59 min
A conversation with Swedish poet Sara Garib, then a conversation between Sara and SA poet Busi Mahlangu, and a poem by Sara (in Swedish first, and then in English, you tell me which one you understand better).
Jan 25, 2022
Jan 25, 2022
1 hr 22 min
After a quick 8 month break, EMERGENCE returns with a good one: a conversation about creativity with multi-disciplinary artist and thinker Morne Venter, recorded on the infamous N1 highway in Gauteng, South Africa.
May 23, 2021
May 23, 2021
1 hr 50 min
A live recording of a poetry-and-music performance with my friends Louwrens Ferreira and Phomolo Sekamotho (Flex of he & I), with a sad-and-not-entirely-sober epilogue about love and push-ups.
May 13, 2021
May 13, 2021
41 min
A ramble about emergence while driving in the rain, a reading of a poem in the park, some connecting thoughts from my home, and a eulogy-epilogue. Thus begins the Emergence Podcast.