{"id":924,"date":"2021-08-28T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T10:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/?p=924"},"modified":"2022-01-19T14:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T13:49:49","slug":"black-market-sounds-and-guerrilla-poetry-mshika-shika-by-masimba-hwati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/black-market-sounds-and-guerrilla-poetry-mshika-shika-by-masimba-hwati\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Market Sounds and Guerrilla Poetry: Mshika-Shika"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Klangkunst, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de\/klangkunst-schwarzmarktklaenge-und-guerillapoesie-mshika.3685.de.html?dram:article_id=500602\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de\/klangkunst-schwarzmarktklaenge-und-guerillapoesie-mshika.3685.de.html?dram:article_id=500602\">Deutschlandfunk Kultur<\/a>, 22.10.2021, 00:05 CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/c95fa045117e51f7d4fb83e50ab07051v1_max_700x394_b3535db83dc50e27c1bb1392364c95a2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/c95fa045117e51f7d4fb83e50ab07051v1_max_700x394_b3535db83dc50e27c1bb1392364c95a2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/c95fa045117e51f7d4fb83e50ab07051v1_max_700x394_b3535db83dc50e27c1bb1392364c95a2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>The sound artist and performer Masimba Hwati (Thomas Kaestenbauer)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ondemand-mp3.dradio.de\/file\/dradio\/2021\/10\/22\/mshika_shika_drk_20211022_0005_430df714.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Mshika-Shika by Masimba Hwati on Deutschlandfunk Kultur <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Guerrilla radios in Zimbabwe&#8217;s war of independence and the black market of Harare: sound artist Masimba Hwati understands these sound spaces as places of resistance against colonial and postcolonial power structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The black market of Harare could be what philosopher Achille Mbembe calls a place of &#8220;political improvisation&#8221;: hidden in plain sight, visible and invisible at the same time, it is a counter-design of (post)colonial relations of violence. It is the trading floor of the street: muffled voices, seductive offers, dubious glances. The sound of worn banknotes, frantically flicked through the fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The artist Masimba Hwati interweaves these sound recordings with radio recordings from the time of the war of independence in Zimbabwe from 1964 to 1979. The passing on of information via guerrilla radio played a central role in the liberation from British colonial power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A radio play about alternative power structures, collective self-empowerment, rebellion and unruliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Original broadcast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mshika-Shika Black Market Sounds and Guerilla Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Masimba Hwati<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Voice and Xizambi:<\/strong> Lukha Mukhavele<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Voice:<\/strong> Alois Moyo and Masimba Hwati, Markus Westphal, Michael Fischer, Vivien Mercedes Jester, Laura Anh Thu Dang, Dean Ruddock, Luka Mukhavhele, Georg Milz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Field Recordings and original sound:<\/strong> Robin Douglas Hwati, Florence Maidei Hwati, Konstantin Bayer and Bianka Voigt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mixing and Studio Recording:<\/strong> Eleftherios Krysalis and Vivien Mercedes Jester<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dramatic accompaniment:<\/strong> Nathalie Singer and Marcus Gammel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Production: Deutschlandfunk Kultur\/Bauhaus-University Weimar\/Goethe-Institut\/Galerie Eigenheim 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Length: ca. 54&#8217;30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The radio piece was produced as part of the Radio Art Residency Weimar, a project of the Goethe-Institut and the Experimental Radio at the Bauhaus University Weimar in cooperation with the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Franz Liszt, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the Th\u00fcringer Landesmedienanstalt, the EIGENHEIM Weimar\/Berlin and the ACC Galerie Weimar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Masimba Hwati<\/strong> was born in Mhondoro, Zimbabwe. His artistic approach is interdisciplinary, encompassing sound, video, performance and visual means of expression. He is currently a PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2019 he was a guest of the summer program &#8220;Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture&#8221;. Solo and group exhibitions in Belgium, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Germany, USA, France and Canada. Together with the two artists Chikonzero Chazunguza and Gareth Nyandoro, he designed the Zimbabwean pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klangkunst, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 22.10.2021, 00:05 CET Guerrilla radios in Zimbabwe&#8217;s war of independence and the black market of Harare: sound artist Masimba Hwati understands these sound spaces as places of resistance against colonial and postcolonial power structures. The black market of Harare could be what philosopher Achille Mbembe calls a place of &#8220;political improvisation&#8221;: hidden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni-weimar.de\/projekte\/radioartresidencyweimar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}