MoRa
Fri Mar 22, 18:00 - Fri Mar 22, 23:00
chiesa di PAZZO LUPi
ABOUT
MoRa: Mogorosi meets Rampolokeng with ensemble live recording
Tumi Mogorosi meets Lesego Rampolokeng (MoRa) is not a word sound genesis but a word sound continuation upholding a sentiment of Black liberation. It is the meeting of different generations still musing on the fundamental freedom question, which is an absolute must within the current upheaval of world politics.
The question that sounds out the centre of this meeting is a question of “writing the ungovernable”[1] (Rampolokeng: 2015) ringing true of the O.R Tambo request to render the country ungovernable in 1985. How might these ethics of ungovernability apply in thinking of freedom anew, in thinking of a way to bring forth a new world as this current world has continuously positioned the Black as the outsider to freedom and rights.
MoRa presents a cultural critique within the current field of South African culture that is determined by an amnesia driven aesthetic that fosters ethnic nationalisms that hinder the national project. MoRa brings in the historical, sociological and political implications of Black cultural work. The work sits in a cultural imaginary of what Frantz Fanon calls “national culture” that premises a decolonial sentiment, one that articulates the longue durée of wrestling with the question of national liberation. These are place holders in the Black arts of a people musing of freedom.