2020 ~ Roaming Assembly# 27 presents Sonsbeek Council #1 Force Times Distance - On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies ~ Izinyanga: Explorations in Creative Methodologies - Performance by Thokozani Mhlambi
Izinyanga is a sonic interpretation of the experience of izinyanga zensimbi (pre-colonial metalworkers in KwaZulu, Africa): incorporating electronic sounds mimicking beating metal, and the incorporation of high frequency sounds which designate the area of the rolling hills of the Drakensberg escarpment. Visually the creative output features a silhouette screening of a person enacting the tasks of a metalworker in front of the furnace, it meditates on the labour involved in this activity, and the context under which the metalworking was regulated according to moon-cycles, etc.
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