Remembering the Future with Qudus Onikeku, Titilope and Tunde Jegede

A conversation three ways (dance, music, poetry) between Qudus Onikeku, Titilope and Tunde Jegede in which they explore the following questions:

How do we attain grace within the muffling burden of memory? What has the past got to offer the future beyond history and memory? How do we forget the past in order to remember our future?

It is an attempt to rewrite our myths, and through that re-imagination of the past, design a new kind of destiny that can allows us where we are supposed to be in spite of the colonial past.

Cia Qudus Onikeku - My Exile in My Head

Posted by PASS on Wed, 22 Jun 12:17
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Wura Samba

Wura Samba is a seven member band based in Lagos, Nigeria and led by Abiodun Abraham Oke. They use traditional percussion instruments in a modernized way. Abiodun Abraham Oke, a versatile, talented and experienced drummer and percussionist, plays his instruments with such dexterity and passion that lends the band its uniqueness. Samba’s music can be characterized as a fusion of traditional African folk songs and rhythms with a classical and modern usage of various percussion instruments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUiM3mU_zmw    ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Wed, 22 Jun 11:48
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PASS landing at Freedom Park, Lagos

From 23 – 26 June 2016, PASS descended on Freedom Park in Lagos, as part of Goethe Institute’s Lagos_Live 2016 festival. The PASS Lagos sessions brought together a broad spectrum of artists, performers, writers and musicians, whose practices draw from a variety of contexts, to participate through conversations, performances and happenings that provoke us to rethink about our histories and to speculate on our futures through artistic and cultural practice.  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Tue, 21 Jun 17:29
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PASS landing at Kallio Library, Helsinki

  Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative? In April and May 2016, Chimurenga’s installation Chimurenga Library and pop-up radio station Pan African Space Station infiltrated the Kallio Library in Helsinki. The intervention was a continuation of Chimurenga’s ongoing exploration into the utopian moment shortly after African independences, when a series of Pan African festivals staged in Dakar, Algiers, Lagos and Kinshasa functioned as laboratories for the development of new, …  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Mon, 20 Jun 16:09
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Hello Skinny – Relaxing at Tagore’s

Friend of PASS, Tom Skinner aka Hello Skinny visited Tagore’s Jazz Bar for the first time earlier in 2015. Upon return to London he couldn’t resist responding with records heard and some newness of his own. Tracklist: 1. 49 Americans – Taste (Intro) 2. Kalahari Surfers – Free State Fence 3. Thomas Mapfumo – Shumba 4. Kalahari Surfers – Stroll Through The Country 5. Udokotela Shange Namajah – Awungilobolele 6. Brian Isaacs/Ronald Chetty – B.C. 7. Dorothy Masuka – This …  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Thu, 10 Dec 09:01
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PASS pop-up at Performa 15 Hub in New York

Through next week, we’ll occupy the Performa 15 Hub in New York with the Chimurenga Library. This multi-tiered programming platform takes the form of a library-of-people, bringing together a broad spectrum of collaborators and literal bodies of knowledge in an improvised, pop-up library which also functions as radio studio and market. The Chimurenga Library engages trade as both the process of buying, selling, or exchanging goods or services and the practice of exchanging ideas, imaginaries, perceptions, and vocabularies. Over five days, from …  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Wed, 04 Nov 20:06
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PASS landing at Performa 15 Hub, New York

From 11 to 15 November 2015, the Chimurenga Library hosted PASS with a live broadcasting programme of music, interviews, and events with Chimurenga collaborators in New York, including musicians, journalists, writers, curators, and filmmakers. The live broadcast studio functioned amidst an installation that brought together pop-up stores that experiment with trade, informal economies, aesthetics and body language, music and spoken word, mobility and infrastructure. Working with collaborators such as Brooklyn-based African Record Centre and Yoruba Book Center (established 1971); artist …  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Tue, 03 Nov 17:58
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African Futures Knowledge Production: Where do we go from here?

“Who generates knowledge about Africa? How do past, present and future collide in representations of the continent? And what are the different languages we use to speak about Africa’s political, technological and cultural tomorrow?” Listen to this talk on PASS. 31/10/2015. 10hoo-13h00 While the world embraces information as both resource and currency, Africa is busy working on telling its story and imagining that story’s future. Will this shift the way in which we think about information or data? Can fiction …  ( continue reading

PASS 13:38 - Wed, 28 Oct 2015

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Kongo Astronauts: Au bord du présent

A mix of new and future roots from Kinshasa featuring Bebson de la rue, Strombo Kayumba, Didje Angleterre, Village papa nyangombe, Lova Lova alias Willfried Beki and Michel Ekeba. Selected and hosted by Kongo Astronauts for the Pan African Space Station.  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Fri, 16 Oct 14:03
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back in the Kaapstad studio

Dankie all who contributed and tuned in to London sessions (and Paris before them). Next pop-up in New York.  ( continue reading

PASS 21:55 - Sun, 11 Oct 2015

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