SPAFRICA  is a collaboration between the German-Dutch director Julian Hetzel and the South African-Bernese performer Ntando Cele about empathy and extractivism.

The project explores how closely racism and capitalism are linked through the element of water as a central conflict. It explores the limits of empathy and exposes its problematic mechanisms.

What if empathy is a practice and an active technology that is not designed to change and challenge privilege and power, but is in fact a tool that reinforces them?