Mshika Shika: Black Market and Guerilla Poetics Event

PhD in Context: Mshika Shika Black Market and Guerilla Poetics // IN ENGLISH
Talks with PhD in Practice

Listening to a radio piece, to be followed by an artist talk by Masimba Hwati, in conversation with a guest, Eleftherios Krysalis.

A description of the tension and beauty of a struggle. The piece is a radio composition consisting of field recordings from the black market and flea market in Harare Zimbabwe, also included are snippets of wartime radio broadcasts from the 2nd Chimurenga (Zimbabwe War of Independence-1964-1979). Two personal stories are punctuating the piece, one from Masimba’s father and another from his Mother both are centered on their experiences around war time radio. Interwoven within also, are moments from an Improvised live sound performance “Bread Scores” from Masimba Hwati and some friends in Weimar. “Bread Scores” was inspired by how small wireless radios, spare batteries, newspaper cuttings and secret messages were smuggled in loaves of bread to the Liberation fighters who were imprisoned during the war of Independence in Zimbabwe. The Blackmarket is a zone for economic and political negotiation and resistance where a people under duress, economic and political pressure alchemically improvise.

Masimba Hwati, interdisciplinary artist and PhD candidate at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

Eleftherios Krysalis, radio/sound artist and freelance researcher, Curator and project coordinator of the Radio Art Residency Weimar

The PhD in Practice program provides a concept of arts-based research that is built upon critical epistemologies, as they have been developed in the context of feminist, queer, postcolonial, ecological, postmarxist and other political and emancipatory projects.

A cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, coordinated by Renate Lorenz (Professor for Art and Research) and Anette Baldauf (Professor for Methodology and Epistemology)