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Third Space
Third Space is a collective seeking to unsettle preconceived notions of the other. As cross border transcultural operatives we seek to erase the invisible lines that separate us. Armed with the intangible weapon of sound and the understanding of the power of visual culture,we form cracks in knowledges situated around us.
Third Space will be playing truant at the Pan African Space Station agitating new forms of civil (dis)obedience with the echoes of struggles past and present, noise forgotten, remebered and remixed.
Based in Helsinki, Third Space is founded and co-ordinated by Ana Gutiesszca, Christopher Wessels, Rosamaria Bolom, Ahmed Al-Nawas, Marianne Niemela and Selina Valiheiki.
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Chimurenga Library at the Kallio Library in 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 will infiltrate the Kallio Library in Helsinki. Chimurenga, a South African editorial collective and an innovative platform for free ideas and political reflection about Africa, will map primarily Kallio Library’s music and multimedia’s collection to create an alternative route to the library’s collection, a setting for …
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PASS Pop-Up at AVA
Chimurenga is occupying the AVA stoep in Cape Town with a pop-up bookshop over three days, from the 27th to the 28th January 2016, from 4-7pm daily. The pop-up includes a live broadcasting studio of the Pan African Space Station (PASS), Chimurenga’s online radio. On the programme for today: Ben V Future Nostalgia Dj Cherry Bomb This event is produced in collaboration with VANSA and the AVA. The live broadcast studio functions amidst an installation that brings together pop-up stores …
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PASS Pop Up at AVA
Chimurenga will be occupying the AVA stoep in Cape Town with a pop-up bookshop over three days, from the 27th to the 28th January 2016, from 4-7pm daily. The pop-up includes a live broadcasting studio of the Pan African Space Station (PASS), Chimurenga’s online radio, featuring a programme of music, interviews, and performances with Chimurenga collaborators in Cape Town, including People’s Education, Future Nostalgia,Lohla Amira and many more. This event is produced in collaboration with VANSA and the AVA. For …
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Call It A Difficult Night Book Launch
Call it a difficult night is a story about madness. Using anecdotes, poems, dialogue, and fragments of historical research, it follows a nonlinear path in tracing the life of its young narrator/protagonist. Institutionalised after a ‘final break’, a young woman remembers in sharp detail her disturbing childhood visions, which have become overwhelming by the time she is at high school and university. When she finally gets a diagnosis a doctor explains that she is likely to be either demented or …
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Listening to FESTAC
Rereading the African Writers Series – The Otolith Collective with James Currey
Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Collective/Group (profiled here) and publisher James Currey discuss the Heinemann African Writers Series, George Hallett, Bessie Head, Dambudzo Marechera and routes (with)in the Chimurenga Library. Recorded for Pan African Space Station at The Showroom, London 2015.
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Tags: African Writers, James Currey, PASS London, The Otolith Collective, The Showroom
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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 …
dave phillips – live piece for PASS
Sonic activist Dave Phillips dropped in to the studio earlier today to record a piece especially for PASS. Interweaving a written text with his own prepared sounds, the audio collage offers a taste of what Keleketla Library listeners heard last week in Joburg and what’s to come at his Cape Town shows in the coming days. Tune in to PASS tonight between 7 and 8pm for the broadcast which will rerun around midnight. 10.12.2015 Capetown, South Africa. Straight No Chaser …
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Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa live performance
PASS plays out with a live vocal and mbira performance by Zimbabwean-born musician and composer Tanyaradzwa Tawangwa. Tawangwa is a Zimbabwean-born musician and composer. A Princeton graduate, she works between mbira, classical piano and cello, opera and popular forms.
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