Performance

Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja

Ondaanisa yo Pomudhime The Dance of the Rubber Tree

Infecting the City 2019

The sound performance Ondaanisa yo Pomudhime (The Dance of the Rubber Tree) is the culmination of Mushaandja’s long-term research on restitution. It reveals sounds from archives and collections making them accessible for future generations. The work is presented as a Collective Listening.

About the Artist

Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja is a performer, educator and writer with practice-research interests in performance, archives and public culture. His research on Oudano — an African concept of performance — looks at its mobilisations of queer praxis, sonic and movement formation, as well as critical pedagogies and spatialities.

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