ARTIST STATEMENT

a pseudo fluxus score, visual essay ” woman is cow ” | a salute to victoria santa cruz + black africanÂ females beings, whose wokeness is yet to come ! Â Â Â Â withÂ

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â BUNTU TYALIÂ | technical directions + editing )Â

Special thanks to SANJIN MUFTIC | cartographer

yinka ESIÂ GRAVES | gestureÂ

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Aida Colmenero Diaz | voiceÂ

Miguel Angel Rosales | photography

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canÂ BLACK african FEMALE Â liveness, density, opacity be captured into | ontoÂ digital matter .. if so how ?

THIS WORK IS BASED ON...

me gritaron Negra | a poem by the Peruvian Victoria Santa Cruz ! In times of black life, which does not include African womanâ€™s worth

Citations + bibliography

Mi gritaron Negra 1978 | Victoria Santa Cruz | poem

Concerning violence | 2014 | Goran Olson film

Drum magazine |1951 – | Media 24 | Johannesburg .

Bicycles| British council film archives

Winnie Mandela | AP associated PRESS | archives

Miriam Makeba | interview Stockholm archives

Photographs (Â noraÂ chipaumireÂ personal archive )

Grandmother – Annie Grace Saungweme

Mother :Francesca Saungweme

Sound

Combi sound – Jacknife

Air Zim sound – Beauty | 1980 Zim

Text |Â noraÂ chipaumire

nora chipaumire

nora chipaumire was born in 1965 in what was then known as umtali, Rhodesia (Mutare | Zimbabwe). She is a product of colonial education for black native Africans – known as group B schooling. She has pursued other studies at the University of Zimbabwe (law) and Mills College (dance) (Oakland | Ca) .

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