Composed, arranged and performed by Neo Muyanga, this audio cd supplement was part of the Chimurenga Chronicle (October 2011) , a speculative newspaper which is issue 16 of Chimurenga.
Tracklist:
a) 1+1= (a re-composition of a 5000-year-old offering to Lord Ganesha, the Hindu deity, an opener of sorts)
b) 4:7 (heaven’s on the ocean is a proportional refrain on reaching nirvana, the 7th grade, via the mundane material world)
c) 3sin= rθ (sino projection technology theme)
d) 3(x)n (illegal border crossing and migration theme. composed for dancers)
e) e=mcx \rightarrow \infty (a true story about an explosive riot day with SADF soldiers who attacked Soweto on June 16th, 1985. Composed for those who got hurt)
f) ƒ:X→Y (horizon heart aflame. Composed for a lover)
g) (a summing of random themes theme)
h) 4x+2 (the 2 or 4 step theme)
i) y~ 6/8 (a travelling theme in 6 parts over eight. Composed for puppets)
j) y\ge \!\, 6/8 (a running theme in 6 parts over 8 )
k) 1/4° (a kota bread theme. Composed for skolies and thieves)
l) (a perpetual circle. Composed for an apartheid-era multi-racial soccer club)
A Gathering by Bulelwa Kunene (Arak Collection, 2025)
How do we sit with the violence of erasure? What do our personal biographies tell us about what has been erased? What alternative histories and narratives emerge when we gather and when we are in community?
A Gathering is an publication by 2024 ARAK Curatorial Fellow Bulelwa Kunene which brings together the work of 13 African artists, each grappling with the complexities of their identities and histories in the postcolonial context; a landscape that is at once generative and silencing, where erasures persist in the shadows of the production of new forms of knowledge. A place to contend with absence.
Without the impulse towards filling silences, mitigating erasures and bridging gaps, A Gathering is an opportunity to sit with the discomfort of a potentially unfinished and multivocal past, present and future.
A Gathering features artworks by Ade Adesina, Bougaard, Christine Nyatho, Donald Makola, Isheanesu Dondo, Lemek Sompoika, Lynette Musukubili, Odirile Khune Motsiri, Samuel Oyebode, Tahir Carl Karmali, Tuli Mekondjo, Zenaéca Singh and Zizicelo Sifumba.