“The Kirby Collection has seven Samuel Makoanyane figures of musicians, commissioned by Prof Percival Kirby in 1935. Kirby's monograph The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa was published in 1934, and a copy was sent to Lesotho for Makoanyane to use as reference. He worked with visual source material all the time. He's looking at women in the village, and carefully analysing anatomy before he makes his figures. That made him a modernist, an artist of the 20th century.”
– Steven Sack

Participants in the Uncertain Entanglements colloquium convened by Kathryn Smith, Leora Farber and Christo Doherty reflect on the role of art and science interactions in their respective practices at Three Bones Residency, Cape Town.