World-renowned South African artist William Kentridge discusses the process of making the 2019 chamber opera Waiting for the Sibyl. He also touches on why artists should stay open to new ideas, the complex relationship between humans and algorithms — "one has to make space for that which does not compute," he says — and the "unavoidable optimism" in the activity of making.

During the 2022-23 academic year, Cal Performances, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley are participating in a campuswide residency with Kentridge.

Cal Performances will present the U.S. premiere of Waiting for the Sibyl on March 17-19. Learn more about the residency and upcoming events.

Read a transcript and listen to the episode on Berkeley News.

Music by Blue Dot Sessions.

Photo by Marc Shoul.

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