Misava

The exhibition is titled ‘Misava; which is a Tsonga word that translates to Mother Earth. The title draws attention to the exhibition focus, which is the extractive relations embedded between humanity and Earth.

The exhibition concept draws from Bantu Kongo cosmology, through the use of the cosmogram as as the exhibition hypermedia interface, to move audiences beyond the parameters of political ontology into the realm of the metaphysical and cosmogenic.

The exhibition seeks to refigure the digital as a site for radical healing and the manifestation of new metaphors of consciousness.

The work(s) presented in the exhibition and related program bring into focus how digital archiv(al) tools and tools for surveillance (computer sensors, the internet) can be harnessed for healing, inclusivity and the manifestation of femme and queer futurities through indiginous knowledge systems.

The exhibition aims to trace, plot, collect and map new pathways to augment and critically discuss the potentials of digital art exhibition interfaces in the African context.

Cosmograms (Dikenga) are cruciform signs representing the four moments of the sun. They function as ancient interfaces for divination, mapping and thinking. They're symbolic gestures that augment thought into the sensory realm.

The four points of the quadrant are divided by two lines, one vertical (mukula) and the other horizontal (kalûnga).

The four cardinal points also carry symbolic meaning: on the right of the quadrant we have Kala, which means birth, it represents the Sun’s first position as it rises in the sky.

At the second position on the apex is Tukula which means noon, it symbolizes life.

The third position on the left is Luvemba which means sunset, symbolizing death and at the bottom Musoni which means midnight, it symbolizes the ancestral realm or rebirth.

The exhibition aims to utilize the Bantu cosmogram interface to help uncover and map the terrestrial sensorium of human awareness, utilizing digital art to refigure the internet as a site for healing and the manifestation of new metaphors of consciousness inspired by African cosmology and philosophy.

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Nkhensani describes their work as a queer meditation on transience, aesthetic sociology and redemptive futurologies; an abstract machine nomadically migrating through contemporary culture. Exploring what Individuality is, what collectivity is and what it means to share space.

A study on migration, indigenous knowledge systems, myth and cultural practices of (re)memory, rooted in counteractive ways of seeing and modes of hearing.

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