Programme:
Closing of Manifestation Diasporic Life: Black Solidarity/Towards Liberation
This weekend, our manifestation Diasporic Life: Black Solidarity/Towards Liberation, will be closing. We welcome you to visit the exhibition from Thursday–Saturday 12pm-5pm.
💛Join us on Friday 24th July, to celebrate the works of Timothy Yanick Hunter, Madubuko Diakité, Shertise Solano, Maureen Blackwood, Cate Lartey; Black Archives Germany and many other contirbutors.
We’ll be hosting a live reading by Tumelo Mtimkhulu at 19.00, followed by an interactive performance and sonic offering by Phantom Wizard at 19.45. Doors open at 18.30, feel free to come earlier to view the works on display. Please be on time for the performances.
🔥Date: Friday July 24th
🔥Time: 18:30 - 21:00
🔥Location: Westerdoksdijk 597,
🔥Free, please RSVP here
Diasporic Life: Black Solidarity/Towards Liberation functions as an experimental platform for (un)doing, memories, presences and togetherness among Black diasporic beings. Returning to questions of Black togetherness, solidarity and liberation, this manifestation asks: What forms of solidarity are possible? What does dreaming mean in a world where Black life is continuously surveilled, consumed and violated? What sustains Black social life in the centres and fringes of Europe and across the world?
Phantom Wizard is a composer and improviser whose work dissolves boundaries and reimagines traditions. Rather than controlling sound, he attempts to guide it. Nurturing a space where multiple truths can coexist. This principle is the core of ‘Fribari’, a sonic philosophy. Phantom Wizard blends natural soundscapes, the sonorities of Afro-diasporic music, experimental electronics and the many ancient traditions sourced from the Surinamese melting pot.
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.
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?