Boitumelo Tlhoaele

BIOGRAPHY

Boitumelo Tlhoaele is an associate lecturer in the Curatorial, Public and Visual Cultures department at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests explore the intersections between jazz and art, working with music and visual archives within the context of curatorial practices. She holds an MA in Heritage Studies (University of the Witwatersrand). Her curatorial projects include the exhibition, Leeto: A Sam Nhlengethwa Print Retrospective (2019) amongst others. Her MA thesis titled Intersections of jazz and art: exploring curatorial methodologies in Sam Nhlengethwa’s 1994 and 2010 exhibitions through synaesthesia and exhibitionary affect.

RESEARCH