nhaka
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cartography of the animist body and radical black african presences
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animist technology
practice and process
nhaka is a long term research project which started with nora chipaumire’ instigations | investigations with tumbuka dance company |directed by anna morris + shona cultural masters in harare | zimbabwe since 2012
nora chipaumire continues the work of deconstructing + embodying ideas
in studio sessions + field studies | sharpening | deepening
nhaka is
not a study of one artist and their output
nhaka is
a way of being a way of thinking a way of practicing + sharing that can be accessed by all
for we in african experimental dance have lacked texts | libraries that locate us in the present future | many texts on present past exist
nhaka hopes to inspire an unholy output of thought + projections that help us navigate art terrains and beyond
creators | thinkers etc are encouraged to take steal run with contribute to the thinking universes of black african imagineries spirit capturing motion
nhaka is
a network | Tsika is functioning like a network ( att etc or net one ) va sahwira
a hacking into open sources | ancestral network
an outsourcing | kufamba -vafamba-takafamba | looking for solutions to problems etc
a repository | a dunzvi - a repository | a cell that has all the codes essential to the livelihood and development of the systems | revelations | transportations
PLUS allows for Kinetic transferences | Kinesthetic - or physical transferences
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nhaka is
Tsika | hunhu culture | personhood
a distinction without difference | for to be a person | personhood one must come from tsika |culture
nhaka is
Ndimi | rurimi | language |correct language conjures up [kweza | attract correct | right response | connection to ancestors
nhaka is
Kusuma | prayers | to access information related to tsika | an opening | first | prayer ask permission to access information
nhaka is
Kutamba | Tamba | mutambi | To play | To dance |The dancer
nhaka is
that dance that arrives after kusuma | prayer | in conjunction with the right sound | the right
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nhaka bhuku
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cartography of the animist body and radical black african presences
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animist technology
practice and process
this research project is indebted to existing knowledge of dance contemporary dance african dance ritual dance published + unpublished the nature of black bodies the products of their imaginations + labor continues to marginalized | exoticised | as such weaponizing the body with deeper understanding of how we got here is crucial
bhuku includes a selected bibliography of political readings that may assist in unpacking the power of the body + importance of history
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nhaka bhuku, is a platform of
ideas | ideals | philosophies | creative processes | curriculae | future tsika
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one can not stay at one place | kudzidza hakuperi - learning never ends
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the point of this platform is to allow those who wish to, to graduate to a level of study where self teaching is the RULE | NORM | inhabiting the state known as freedom
the highest purpose fo this sharing is allow fellow humans invested in the body and its potential to find your “mandoro kwati “ | the fullness of your being
Mhondoro THOUGHTS | urgent ideas
nhaka bhuku is
black african futurists futures | held in these concepts | philosophies | hunhu | chivanhu | nhaka | chikaranga | Tsika
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(check it ) the human animal has the ability to speak to its past | present | future selves
via the conduit generally referred to as the ancestor | spirt | mhepo | wind |
this conduit has revealed itself to different time zones | geographies and unleashed its power surges using various names | the future for black beings is unfolding in the present | beyond digital capacities | hence Nhaka | cartography of animist technologies | a text on the mesmerizing lives of those chosen |
and the new generation | born in culture
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