Sampled Ground - Nontsikelelo Mutiti / Yara Mekawei
- daadgalerie
- Performance
- Screening
- Talk
09.10.2021 / 18:00 – 23:00
With Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Yara Mekawei
Slot 1: Nontsikelelo Mutiti + Lerato Shadi, installation + talk
doors 6 pm, talk 7 pm
Nontsikelelo Mutiti, KUDUDUNURA (part 2), 2021
(wall installation, ground floor + 1st floor)
Nontsikelelo Mutiti, one of the current fellows of the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program, installed a wall piece at the daadgalerie, which is the second part of KUDUDUNURA, first presented at IPCNY (International Print Center New York) in 2020 as part of an ongoing series of explorations related to surface design and typography. African hair braiding as a practice and aesthetic marker remains a significant and meaningful artifact of heritage and an important contemporary form preserved and innovated on by Black communities globally. For Nontsikelelo Mutiti braiding is a shared visual vocabulary.
The work spells out an exclamation or laugh, a very specific gesture shared between women who identify as Shona in Zimbabwe, the home country of the artist. The full expression spells AHEHEDE-URI, in which each letterform is built up from a series of modules that carry the motif of cornrows or hair braids or plaits. The modular samples of braided letterforms address the undoing that comes with immigration, displacement and cultural eraser whilst celebrating language, identities, creativity, and resilience practices of Black peoples.
Free Entrance / Admission is according to the 2G rule (vaccinated / recovered).
We encourage you to get tested in addition to your proof of vaccination / recovery.
Limited Capacity – Please book a slot here
daadgalerie (1. OG)
Slot 2: Yara Mekawei, performance + DJ Set, 8.30 pm
Yara Mekawei – “658. Listen to the holy text” (live performance)
The presented electronic music project is based on the hidden influential figures in Sufi history whose stories are mentioned in heavenly books. Yara Mekawei transferred the text to numbers and composed sound based on them.
A prolific artist and scholar, Mekawei‘s sonic bricolages draw inspiration from the dynamic flow of urban centers and the key infrastructure of cities. Interested in the philosophy of architecture, social history, and philosophical literature. Mekawei implemented the optical transaction from the musical conversation and transferred the sound waves to visual forms. Her work is based on sound as an essential tool of vision, the philosophy of composition is shaped by sophisticated practices that convey messages of the conceptual dimension to the public. Mekawei is a research-based practice humbly proposed in history, intimately connecting the ideology of the mythic past to the developed technology of the eternal present.
Mekawei uses the research literature specializing in the social philosophies in her concepts. She naturally follows her ambitious projects through a research point of inseparably uniting between a piece of work and the other, whose work shows an intangible aspect of her cultural identity and feminine in an East African society.
Yara Mekawei started her fellowship with the Artists-in-Berlin Program end of September, 2021.
Free Entrance / Admission is according to the 2G rule (vaccinated / recovered).
We encourage you to get tested in addition to your proof of vaccination / recovery.
Limited Capacity – Please book a slot here
daadgalerie (1. OG)
Part of the Sampled Ground Fellow Festival at daadgalerie
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Slot 2: Nontsikelelo Mutiti in conversation with Lerato Shadi (Installation / Talk) KUDUDUNURA (part 2), 2021 Site-specific adhesive vinyl installation, dimensions variable Nontsikelelo Mutiti, one of the current fellows of the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program, installed a wall piece at the daadgalerie, which is the second part of KUDUDUNURA, first presented at IPCNY (International Print Center New York) in 2020 as part of an ongoing series of explorations related to surface design and typography. African hair braiding as a practice and aesthetic marker remains a significant and meaningful artifact of heritage and an important contemporary form preserved and innovated on by Black communities globally. For Nontsikelelo Mutiti braiding is a shared visual vocabulary. The work spells out an exclamation or laugh, a very specific gesture shared between women who identify as Shona in Zimbabwe, the home country of the artist. The full expression spells AHEHEDE-URI, in which each letterform is built up from a series of modules that carry the motif of cornrows or hair braids or plaits. The modular samples of braided letterforms address the undoing that comes with immigration, displacement and cultural eraser whilst celebrating language, identities, creativity, and resilience practices of Black peoples.
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