Pungwe Nights: Listening to a Listening
Event 2 December 2016
Event photograph from the offsite exchange ‘Pungwe Nights: Listening to Listening’ that shows a table laden with audio equipment is surrounded by various attendees. At the back, Thabiso Sekgala’s photograph ‘The Terrace Hotel, Bulawayo’ and Moshekwa Langa’s mixed media work ‘Untitled (Objects in a Mirror)’ is mounted on the wall.
Event: Pungwe Nights | Listening to a Listening at 36 Buitenkant Street (A4’s previous premises), December 2, 2016. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title Pungwe Nights: Listening to a Listening Dates 2 December 2016 Location Offsite Tagline An aural presentation and conversation between Memory Biwa and Robert Machiri. Credits

Artists:
Robert Machiri
Memory Biwa

Coordinators:
francis burger
Pam Dlungwana

Listening to a Listening is a collaborative, experiential sound performance by Memory Biwa and Robert Machiri that explores the relationship between the sound of language and the language of sound. Presenting two archives from different spaces and times – mbira music archives on vinyl recorded in Zimbabwe in 2015 and 1950s linguistic voice recordings from Namibia – Biwa and Machiri investigate the transnational relationship between languages, instruments and sound technology.

Event photograph from the offsite exchange ‘Pungwe Nights: Listening to Listening’ that shows vinyl records laid out on a windowsill.
Event: Pungwe Nights | Listening to a Listening at 36 Buitenkant Street (A4’s previous premises), December 2, 2016. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Event photograph from the offsite exchange ‘Pungwe Nights: Listening to Listening’ that shows two participants seated at a table laden with audio equipment, laptops and vinyl records.
Event photograph from the offsite exchange ‘Pungwe Nights: Listening to Listening’ that shows a table laden with audio equipment, laptops and vinyl records.
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