Taking the stories and histories of the Indian Ocean as its departure point, the group exhibition Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora brings together 13 contemporary artists, historians, filmmakers, musicians, writers and thinkers to investigate, unpack and shed light on some of the smaller and bigger historical, cultural and linguistic links between the continents of Africa and Asia. The exhibition approaches the Indian Ocean as a communal horizon from which to read Afrasian (that is, belonging to both Africa and Asia) histories of forced and unforced movement through currents of mercantile and colonial empire.

Ziwa Kuu, the Swahili Sea, the Afrasian Sea, the Indian Ocean, Ratnakara, Eastern Ocean, Indic Ocean or Bahari Hindi are just a few of the names used to characterise a body of water that has been dubbed the oldest continuum in human history. This water mass covers some 20% of the world’s total oceanic area and spreads between the East African coast, bordering Asia in the north, engulfing Australia in the east and stretching south to the Southern Ocean. There is much in a name, they say, but no single name seems to have the potential of encompassing, containing, signifying or expressing all that this body of water stands for, tells, sings or invokes. It is too complex, too deep, too vast and pregnant with a plenitude of histories, to carry just one name. What is for certain is that rather than divide, it connects geographies, cultures, peoples, languages, foods, sounds, winds, waters, economies, philosophies and more. The ocean is a fluid joint, a junction of and for affinities and realignments prior to nation-state allegiances.  

Indigo Waves and Other Stories is guest curated by renowned art historians and curators Natasha Ginwala and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, with Michelangelo Corsaro. 

Participating artists:

Akinbode Akinbiyi
Ayesha Hameed
Cetus Chin-Yun Kuo
Cinga Samson
Hasawa
Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose
Malala Andrialavidrazana
Myriam Omar Awadi
Oscar Murillo
Sancintya Mohini Simpson with Isha Ram Das
Shiraz Bayjoo in dialogue with Traci Kwaai
Sohrab Hura
Thania Petersen

This exhibition is presented in partnership with Gropius Bau and SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, and Vasl Artists’ Association, Karachi, amongst  others.

Zeitz MOCAA’s curatorial exhibition and programming is proudly supported by Gucci.

Indigo Waves & Other Stories Stop 6

‘When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting’ presents an exploration of self-representation that celebrates Black subjectivity and Black consciousness from pan-African and pan-diasporic perspectives. 

With a primary focus on painting, specifically works produced from the 1920s to the present, ‘When We See Us’ celebrates how artists from Africa and its diaspora have imagined, positioned, memorialised and asserted African and African-descent experiences. The title of the exhibition is derived from ‘When They See Us’, a 2019 American drama mini-series, directed by Ava DuVernay, that depicts various forms of violence against Black bodies as still witnessed globally today.

Comprising more than 200 artworks from the last 100 years, the main theme of the exhibition centres on the tenacity, essence and political significance of Black joy and the everyday life of Black people.

Image: Zandile Tshabalala, ‘Two Reclining Women’, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91.5cm. Courtesy of Zandile Tshabalala Studio.

Stop 5 - Sensuality

Texte écrit par Kaina Pussykopat
Instrumental Face B luciano Loco
Enregistrement et mix: Julien du STUDIO22.03 Marseille
Cover: El badra la soeur.
Back Ambiance: Manro du collectif PUSSYKOPAT

Vrai Visage (Kaïna)

Broken Touch Screen

The Fire That Consumes All Before It

my.head joins Kastle for episode six of our radio show. His second album, INDIGO, is out on December 22nd.

Pre-order INDIGO:
https://symbols.bandcamp.com/album/indigo

Tracklist

Symbols Radio 006 ft. my.head

Panacea (Reimagined)

Shedding Skin (Kris Vango Remix)

A compilation to celebrate the first year of activity… not an easy task: too young to have a clearly defined personality and too old not to have one.

Lots of thoughts crossed our minds, mainly revolving all around the same question: should we try to do something different? And lots of advice came our way: you should! You must! You need to! Let me show you how things are done!

So, this one is not only a combined action taken in Commando Vanessa style, but also a reaction.

We are not looking to be different, we just want to embrace differences.

That’s why this is what it is: a diverse, colorful, exaggerated, intimate, political, sexy compilation.

Just a flow of different music we like.

LET THEM MANSPLAIN!

Innocent Heretic Feat. RUIN - Sacred Sirens

Focus / Forever (TheGhettoz Edit)

my heav3n valentine's sophie tribute set even tho it was only a 15 minute set im so honored to be on a lineup with so many amazing artists ty lulo for having me, if you want a full sophie tribute experience listen to my discwoman mix http://www.discwoman.com/mixes/goth-jafar this mix is dedicated to sophie xeon, terrell davis and baize

☆ 1winna [shygirl edit] - bapari x river moon
☆ home with you [danyo remix] - fka twigs
☆ psalms - fka twigs + sophie
☆ pink diamiond [dj moralez x miss jay remix] - charli xcx
☆ i got it x aegarb [avbvrn advisory bootleg] - charli xcx
☆ hardcore appeal - neve
☆ captain hook [rave mix] - dj hotfuck
☆ nicki minaj yikes [boy idk rave edit] - no replica
☆ pussytest doll [flo milli x rizzla] estoc
☆ pssy tlk x bdj tll - sxylk
☆ kitty kat - sophie
☆ let me see ya - big freedia + sophie
☆ the cure [danyo remix] - lady gaga
☆ ily2 [euphoria edit] - charli xcx + danny l harle
☆ on a mountain - danny l harle

happy valentine's day <33

heav3n: reloaded

Shamhat is a DJ, composer and producer from Berlin with audio landscapes ranging from colourful sunsets at the seaside to wild riots in gloomy streets. 

Growing up in Berlin they spend most of their youth between the rehearsal rooms of punk and metal bands and sweaty techno clubs, until they found their way into the depths of electronic music making. They defy categorization of their sound as such always goes hand in hand with limitations and restrictions and rather enjoy tearing down these boxes. 

Shamhat tries to take the listener on a journey, create an athmosphere that develops in various directions and most importantly, make you dance. As a rebellious slut by nature, you will often find elements of sex, genderfuckery and resistance in their music.

Available for compositions, shows, DJ sets and mixing / mastering.