donna KUKAMA

Sunshine for Those of Us Who Still Breathe from Under the Rubble is a performance lecture, the second in 'The Sunshine Series', a series of public lectures that follow an eight-year performance project titled 'the history book for those who absolutely need to be remembered'. The performance titled Sunshine for Those of Us Who Live Through the Holes in Your Concrete, was presented at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in 2023.

It begins with the notion of writing as an embodied practice, where to write-in-time is to re-member the breaths of grandmothers, oceans, lands, plants, aunts, spirits, heroines, (...) as active participants in the writing of history, therefore challenging conventional historical narratives and offering forms of insubordination that apply methods existing outside of what is readily recognizable as ‘protest’. Weaving dreams, rituals, memories, and alchemy, and using the body as an ancestral archive and breath, this becomes a tool for speaking back to and imagining multiple existences beyond forms of oppression, coloniality, and apartheid.