Future Lab Africa

Future Lab Africa

audio african contemporary traditional sci-tech storytelling

Episodes

  1. Screen Based Resistance & The Politics of Representation with Tabita Rezaire

    08/31/2020

    Screen Based Resistance & The Politics of Representation with Tabita Rezaire

    From the Archives. My interview with Tabita Rezaire in Johannesburg, South Africa in May 2015.  I decided to re-release because our conversation seems to speak to our chaotic times.  Tabita Rezaire (b.1989, Paris, France) is infinity incarnated into an agent of healing, who uses art as a means to unfold the soul. Her cross-dimensional practices envision network sciences – organic, electronic and spiritual – as healing technologies to serve the shift towards heart consciousness. Navigating digital, corporeal and ancestral memory as sites of resilience, she digs into scientific imaginaries to tackle the pervasive matrix of coloniality and the protocols of energetic misalignments that affect the songs of our body-mind-spirits. Inspired by quantum and cosmic mechanics, Tabita’s work is rooted in time-spaces where technology and spirituality intersect as fertile ground to nourish visions of connection and emancipation. Through screen interfaces and collective offerings, she reminds us to open our inner data centers to bypass western authority and download directly from source. Tabita is based in Cayenne, French Guyana. She has a Bachelor in Economics (Fr) and a Master of Research in Artist Moving Image from Central Saint Martins (Uk). Tabita is a founding member of the artist group NTU, half of the duo Malaxa, and the mother of the energy house SENEB. Tabita has shown her work internationally – Centre Pompidou, Paris; Serpentine London; MoMa NY; New Museum NY; MASP, Sao Paulo; Gropius Bau Berlin; MMOMA Moscow, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; ICA London; V&A London; National Gallery Denmark; The Broad LA; MoCADA NY; Tate Modern London; Museum of Modern Art Paris – and contributed to several Biennales such as the Guangzhou Triennial, Athens Biennale, Kochi Biennale (2018); Performa (2017); and Berlin Biennale (2016).

    16 min
  2. The Technology of Disco

    03/01/2019

    The Technology of Disco

    In this episode of "The Technology of Disco," we embark on a rhythmic journey into the heart of a musical revolution. In this episode we travel through time using the technology of disco with the exquisite Anna Tjé/Nyum Supernova. We trace the contributions African sound, technology and spirituality had in influencing the Disco phenomenon experienced globally. Disco, with its infectious beats and shimmering melodies, wasn't just a genre; it was a testament to the cutting-edge technology of its era. We investigate Disco’s roots in Cameroon, in Afri Listen to the Playlist on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLKvTIliyC4xdNZN7nmuamGWCvb3Mf7nhK Soñ Gweha (aka SOÑXSEED) (formely known as Anna Tje) Soñ Gweha is an artist, researcher,  community organizer and vinyl collector born in 1989, who lives and works between the outskirts of Paris in France and Vienna in Austria. Through a transdisciplinary practice, Soñ Gweha works with music, poetry, video, performance, installation, sculpture to deconstruct the mechanisms of survival, mindfulness and healing. Navigating through contemporary creation, research and collective practices for transformative justice, they uses analog Djaying, sounds and their voice as an instrument (under the name SOÑXSEED ), moving images, poetic writings, archival conversations, , body gestures, textiles and fruit & plant matter, in order to explore intimacy, love, tribulation and joy from a afrofeminist and queer perspective.

    40 min

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audio african contemporary traditional sci-tech storytelling