18 September from 13:00-15:00
‘De Aesthetic: Writing with and from the Black Sonic’ (2021) is a book of essays by
Johannesburg-based artist, jazz percussionist and thinker Tumi Mogorosi. The
essays focus on the Black Sonic as a dislocated episteme, which identifies the
aesthetic as a limitation. In their de-centring, the texts fundamentally open a
way to write and read beyond hegemonic knowledge validations. As a reading that
straddles between Brenda Fassie, Louis Armstrong, Louis Moholo-Moholo and Sade,
they are in visual conversation with symbols created by Emeka Alams of Gold
Coast Trading Company. For this session Mogorosi will be joined by art critic
and theorist Athi Mongezeleli Joja to discuss the Preface of the book.
Normal entry fees apply