Artist and researcher Ralph Borland invited me to document the making of his most recent work, “Bone Flute” as part of his ongoing research project, AIAIA - Aesthetic Interventions in Artificial Intelligence in Africa. “Bone Flute” is a 3D-printed replica of the artist’s femur, made into a flute. The work is a collaboration with orthopaedic surgeon Rudolph Venter, in the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, and flute player, composer and improviser Alessandro Gigli.

This body of work is part of his Future Hospitals project at HUMA, the Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The short film premiered at Brutal gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town, on 25 January 2023. Read more about the project here.