Closing of Manifestation Diasporic Life: Black Solidarity/Towards Liberation
On 24 July, as part of Diasporic Life: Black Solidarity/Towards Liberation, artist Tumelo Mtimkhulu will perform a live reading of a text composed for the manifestation. Phantom Wizard, composer of the soundtrack for ‘Overboard and still dreaming’ by Shertise Solano, will create an interactive performance centered on sound and togetherness. Bringing the themes of the film’s soundtrack to life through evoking sonic capacity of the ocean, the performance invites participants to gather, listen, and connect.
Diasporic Life: Black Solidarity/Towards Liberation unfolds as the second chapter of Diasporic Life. It builds on the earlier manifestation Diasporic Life: Black Togetherness as a Lingua Franca, developed with Barby Asante between London and Amsterdam. The project continues a multi-year international and interdisciplinary research process that considers the meaning, multiplicity and complexity of Black aliveness in Fortress Europe, in relation to the African continent and its many Diasporas. Diasporic Life centers the Black imaginative world and the ways it enchants everyday Black diasporic life beyond the shadow of anti-Black violence. How do “we” keep each other alive? In what ways doesDiasporic Life manifest itself in visual and sonic cultures Black people make for themselves for each other? And what methodologies, dreams and processes (re)shape the practices and daily lives of Black artists, activists and cultural producers?
Join to close the second iteration of Diasporic Life, with the special offerings by Tumelo Mtimkhulu and Phantom Wizard.
🔥Date: Friday July 24th
🔥Time: 18:30 - 21:00
🔥Location: Westerdoksdijk 597,
🔥Free, please RSVP here
Bios:
Tumelo Mtimkhulu is an artist from Johannesburg, South Africa, working between Johannesburg and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mtimkhulu investigates the language and architectures that are foundational to the established social reality. He treats the established social reality and the way in which it shapes the experience of upbringing, labour, loss, geopolitics, imagination, love and language as suspect. This is done through poetry and material abstraction of the prescribed forms that aid the making up of a singular social reality. A reality that is often the product of the imagination of a few. His practice is typified by the use of an ever-growing list of materials, from visual and written text to plaster, cement, concrete, familiar objects, sound and video.
Phantom Wizard is a composer and improviser whose work blurs boundaries and reimagines traditions. Rather than controlling sound, he seeks to guide it, creating a space in which multiple truths can exist side by side. This principle lies at the heart of ‘Fribari’, a sonic philosophy. Phantom Wizard blends natural soundscapes, the timbral colours of Afro-diasporic music, experimental electronics, and the many ancient traditions that emerge from Suriname’s cultural melting pot. Phantom Wizard lives and works in Amsterdam Zuidoost.