Listening at Pungwe
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| Biography | «Listening at Pungwe» are Memory Biwa and Robert Michiri: Pungwe is an interdisciplinary project circling African music with related contemporary arts discourses and spaces. This collaborative practice expands into the current project «Listening to a Listening at Pungwe». The central ideology of Pungwe draws on active convergence that is commonly linked to deep spiritual commitment. The interconnection of morale elevation and spiritual intervention is a reality in our contemporary spaces that drives convergence through song in overnights of wakefulness. Pungwe can be streamed as a commune of people that are «woke», referring to wakefulness as an act of mourning, morning used adjectivally, anticipating sun rise as an emancipatory symbol. A gathering of this form was known as Pungwe (shona word for vigil), during Zimbabwe’s armed struggle of colonial resistance. It was mediated through mbira music rituals. |
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| Photo Credit | Thabo Thindi |
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