Description
The mixtape, Tsi i ge ge hahe II, is centred on geographies as monuments that are aurally activated to create layered registers in space. These processes contest and shift spatial practices, and enact the possibilities to re-make place. Lena Fender, whose voice is heard from the centre of the room, recites the opening and closing of a story, ‘tsi i ge ge hahe’, a call into and from the story-world. Her voice recorded in Okahandja, central Namibia, is a continuous motif in the audio piece, and is on a loop, alongside Credo Mutwa’s oration. Audio from cities in southern Africa (Dar es Salaam, Bagamoyo, Livingstone and Harare), own compositions and traces from our vinyl collections surround the place, and invoke diverse practices of listening.
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