[vc_video link='https://youtu.be/e6qjvfSNxfI'] For this for forth and final episode of ISINGQI Activations, we were hosted by the Music Department of the University of Fort Hare at the Miriam Makeba Centre for Performing Arts. The premise of this gathering is to demonstrate the decolonial praxis in indigenous...
[vc_video link='https://youtu.be/JCh4TrebEaE'] For this third activation of ISPILI Magazine Volume II ISINGQI we had the honour of being joined by maKhulu Madosini (Dr) as our guest. This volume of ISPILI Magazine being dedicated to her, maKhulu shared so much about her early childhood, the activities they...
[vc_video link='https://youtu.be/eQlMziDPkdc'] The second activation of ISINGQI occurred on the 27th of October 2019 at Heritage Cafe, Port Elizabeth. The intention for the activation was to curate a space that promotes healing through ritual: interaction, collaboration and participation. This was achieved through public performance piece, pop-up exhibition,...
[vc_video link='https://youtu.be/T0jbjUzmRqA'] The first activation of ISPILI Magazine Volume II: ISINGQI | Vibration Activation occurred at William Humphrey's Art Gallery in Kimberley on 12 October 2019. IZANUSI were joined by Mntana WeXhwele to provide sonic divinitions reflective of the work published in the magazine, and also...
The second volume of ISPILI Magazine is dedicated to Eastern Cape born cultural worker, archiver, healer and Xhosa music bow master, Madosini. For this issue, we're interested in the various ways of knowing around ISINGQI/ sound-ing, the diverse vibrational/ sonic dimensions and how they in themselves are modalities...
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[image_with_text image='https://ispilinetwork.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Makhathini-MoC-Cover.jpg' title='' title_color='' title_tag=''] The year 2020 signifies a very particular moment in the unfolding of our particular personal-local historiographies, as well as the broader cosmological time and evolution of cosmic consciousness. The violent intrusion of global imperial design sought to destabilize and erode various...
[embed]https://www.mixcloud.com/ISPILINetwork/ispili-podcasts-ep05-w-nduduzo-makhathini/[/embed] For this episode, we meditate with Makhosi Nduduzo Makhathini on 'Beneath the Earth,' his newly released single from Blue Note Records debut "Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds." We explore the concept of the earth as a space that holds memory, inkaba as a...
[vc_video link='https://youtu.be/zv-gmHxN7mE'] ISINGQI Web Series is a unique cinematic exploration of the various ways of knowing around ISINGQI /sound-ing, the diverse vibrational/ sonic dimensions and how they in themselves are modalities of knowing and traversing the universe, of communicating, channeling. For this first episode, we feature NGAPHANTSI...