Nontsikelelo Mutiti
Nontsikelelo Mutiti: Women in Self-publishing
Nontsikelelo Mutiti kicks off with a talk on women in self-publishing featuring Yolanda Sangwena (Afripop Magazine), Amy Sall (SUNU Journal), Ali Rosa–Salas (Top Rank Magazine) and Jessica Lynne (Arts.black).
Mutiti is a Zimbabwean-born artist and educator. She has been a resident artist at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Recess as well as the Centre for Book Arts in New York and is currently Assistant Professor in the New Media Department at State University of New York, Purchase College.
Ali Rosa-Salas is an editorial Assitant at Top Rank Magazine and curatorial fellow at MoCADA. She has produced exhibitions, event series and public programs for AFROPUNK, Barnard Center for Research on Women, Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership, TOP RANK Magazine and Weeksville Heritage Center.
Yolanda Sangweni is a South-African born writer/editor and cultural curator. Currently, she is the entertainment editor of ESSENCE.com and the founder of afriPOP, an online destination highlighting what’s new and what’s next in global African culture.
Amy Sall is a researcher and writer and the founder and editor of SUNU: Journal of African Affairs, Critical Thought + Aesthetics.
Jessica Lynne is a writer and arts administrator. She is also co-editor of ARTS.BLACK, a platform for art criticism from Black perspectives.
Sunday 15 November Runnings
Its the final day of the Pop-up at the Performa Hub in New York. Join us at 47 Walker street at 3pm when Nontsikelelo Mutiti kicks off with a talk on women in self-publishing featuring Yolanda Sangwena (Afripop Magazine), Amy Sall (SUNU Journal), Ali Rosa–Salas (Top Rank Magazine) and Jessica Lynne (Arts.black). Next up, Africa is a Country presents Seeing voices: Reflections on African photographic portraiture, a discussion on photography with Zachary Rosen and friends. Then poet and choreographer Harmony …
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Tags: Africa is a Country, Harmony Holiday, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Omar Berrada
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Nontsikelelo Mutiti: Women in new media & technology
Nontsikelelo Mutiti‘s African Hair Braiding Salon at the Chimurenga Library in NYC provides a framework to publish and present a range of works that are physical and performative in nature. She gets the weekend programme started with a conversation on women in new media and technology with Torkwase Dyson, Salome Asega, Yulan Grant and Kimberly Drew (Black Contemporary Art).
Saturday 14 November 2015 Runnings
Nontsikelelo Mutiti‘s African Hair Braiding Salon at the Chimurenga Library in NYC provides a framework to publish and present a range of works that are physical and performative in nature.She gets the weekend programme started with a conversation on women in new media and technology with Torkwase Dyson, Samole Asega, Yulan Grant and Kimberly Drew (Black Contemporary Art). Next up, Africa is a Country present “Adrift: A soundtrack for migration,” the second of three panels, curated by AIAC managing editor, …
Nontsikelelo Mutiti & Tinashe Mushakavanhu: The Hairdresser of Harare
PASS Pop-up NYC resident, Nontsikelelo Mutiti steps out of her onsite braiding salon to join writer Tinashe Mushakavanhu in a reading of The Hairdresser of Harare. Zimbabwean-born artist and educator Mutiti’s African Hair Braiding Salon at the Chimurenga Library in the PERFORMA 15 Hub provides a framework to publish and present a range of works that are physical and performative in nature. Here, women of colour are brought into proximity with each other over the business of beauty. Tinashe Mushakavanhu …
Friday 13 November Runnings
Africa is a Country are in studio to get the weekend started with “Block The Road: The Sound of Afrosoca,” an exploration of the recent explosion of cross-Atlantic exchange between Caribbean and African musicians, with Rum N’ Lime Radio co-hosts – Queens-based writer and academic Rishi Nath, and DJ, producer, and Trinidadian Soca ambassador DLife. Next, composer and musician and a co-curator of the Pan African Space Station, Neo Muyanga is back with more Revolting Tunes that engage black music …
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Tags: Coco Fusco, Giovanni Russonello, Neo Muyanga, Nontsikelelo Mutiti
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Live Sound Collab: Dyani Douze, Taja Cheek & Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa
Chimurenga Library NYC resident Nontsikelelo Mutiti curates a live sound collab between multimedia artist Dyani Douze, code-switcher and Throw Vision member Taja Cheek (Throw Vision) and musician and composer Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa. Dyani Douze is a multimedia artist. She has served as an editorial apprentice on Spike Lee’s documentary Bad 25, and has produced several personal projects, including a short documentary exploring architectural spaces in Paris. Dyani also produces music and DJs at local venues. Taja Cheek is a code-switcher who …
Wednesday 11 November runnings
PASS is live and orbiting in NYC. We kicks things off with a conversation with Chimurenga Library NYC residents Brooklyn based African Record Centre and Yoruba Book Centre (established 1971); artist and educator Nontsikelelo Mutiti, who is running an African Hair Braiding Salon in the space; and poet, choreographer and Afrosonics archivist Harmony Holiday. Next, Nontsikelelo curates a sound collab between multimedia artist Dyani Douze, code-switcher and Throw Vision member Taja Cheek (Throw Vision) and musician and composer Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa. …
PASS in NY: Nontsikelelo Mutiti and guests
Working across disciplines to produce work that occupies the forms of fine art, design, and social practice, Zimbabwean-born artist and educator Nontsikelelo Mutiti curates an African Hair Braiding Salon that provides a framework to publish and present a range of works that are physical and performative in nature. Here, women of colour are brought into proximity with each other over the business of beauty. Collaborators include graphic design Julia Novitch, writer Tinashe Mushakavanhu and sculpture LaKela Brown. Mutiti also hosts: …
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 …
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Tags: Harmony Holiday, Neo Muyanga, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, PASS New York
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