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Join us for an artist walkabout with Lucia Nhamo, as she guides us through her process, central interests, themes and an insight into her work on show in ‘Free Fall’. The walkabout on Friday 9 December marks the closing day of her solo exhibition.
‘Free Fall’ presents two works that revolve around the gesture of rolling/kukunguruka. ‘Kukunguruka I & II’ are an animation and video-recorded treatment of the Chiremba Balancing Rocks, the national monument and iconic symbol of the Zimbabwean currency.
‘Kukunguruka I’ is a two-channel animation of the 1,000,000,000,000 (one hundred trillion) dollar note, both the last and largest denomination of Zimbabwean currency printed in 2008. The Chiremba Balancing Rocks are transformed into three-dimensional reincarnations that roll and tumble against each other in a closed loop that examines structures of meaning and material presences. Accompanied by audio vignettes which include public service announcements and vendor loudspeakers, the reanimation of the historic site produces an environment that disrupts notions of monument, memory and place.
‘Kukunguruka II’ is a video piece built around citizen agency, the power or in some cases, lack thereof, which comes with the idea of democracy. Moving around and activating the heritage site, Nhamo in a cumbersome bodysuit attempts to roll back and forth to gain momentum, against gradients and in straight lines, but invariably ends up in haphazard curves accenting the absurdity of her action. Outfitted in what might be seen as a ubiquitous colour during the election period (hot pink voting dye) she explores and questions not only power structures but the monumentalism that upholds it in space. By questioning monumentalism around power, Nhamo questions power itself while addressing her own powerlessness.
“Perhaps the biggest revelation in this work is the two fundamental questions that it elicits, and their relation to the condition of citizenship in the country today: What is going on? What are we doing?”
Lucia Nhamo is a Zimbabwean artist who completed her MFA in Visual Art at Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. Through video, printmaking, performance and sculpture, her work explores the idea of the ‘counter-monument’ as a material, and conceptual strategy of alternative representation of citizenship and place. She has exhibited widely in Brazil, Mali, U.S.A, Tunisia, Cuba, Senegal and South Korea. In 2015, Nhamo was awarded the Prix Spécial at the 10th Edition Rencontres de Bamako. Free Fall at Njelele Art Station marks Nhamo’s first solo exhibition.
*Authors: Tawanda Appiah, Tinofireyi Zhou
The Biggest Beach Party Coming To The City Of Kings & Queens This Summer Featuring Zims Finest DJs:
Harare: Rakesh Patel Ray Raydizz Rawse
Bulawayo: VDJ Barry DJ Victor Bravo Nazim Daniel Omar
Corner First Street, Phillips Drive, BYO
Tickets are $5 before 10pm
Join the fashion forward and fashion followers as we fundraiser to help give back to a charity cause for cancer.
The event will be free all morning.
Later there will be a fashion show in the evening 7pm – 10pm, admissions as follows:
$10 Ordinary
$30 VIP
Tickets are available from
News Cafe Borrowdale
Sopranos Avondale
Mugg & Bean Avondale
Open Dance Sport Competition- Come and Watch, beautiful ballroom, Latin and classical dancing.
All Table seats $15 per perosn and single seats $10 per person. Pensioners $5 (Children Under 10 -FREE) Bar And catering available:
For Table or seat bookings please call: 0772302232 / 0776 270311 (tickets also available at the door)
Jubilee Hall, Hartmann House Borrowdale Road.
Starts 5.30pm Sharp
Come and here one of the leading African thinkers of our time. This Is a conference not to be missed focussing on finance, trade, ICT, value chains and land tenure.
Mandivamba Rukuni holds a PhD degree from the University of Zimbabwe and an M.Sc. degree from the University of Reading, UK in Tropical Agricultural Development (Economics). Inclusive of his achievements are several honours and awards, the most distinguished of which are: Honorary Doctoral Degree (2008) bestowed by the School of the Prophets Institute of Jerusalem; Citation from State of Michigan Congress 2008; Nominee, 1990 and 1992 Africa Prize for Leadership in the Sustainable End of Hunger. He has also published 15 books and more than 100 articles.
Mandivamba Rukuni is a development analyst and strategist in the areas of agriculture, community development, business, finance, government, and education. He is currently Trustee of the Barefoot Education for Afrika Trust (BEAT) whose purpose is to promote community-based knowledge innovation for development.
His career began as an academic at the University of Zimbabwe where he lectured and served as Professor and Dean of Agriculture. He served as chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into Land Tenure Systems of Zimbabwe. In 2006 he began working with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation as the Director for Africa Programmes. Since then, Mandivamba Rukuni has conducted work as a consultant and advisor to organisations such as the World Bank; EU; USAID; DFID; CIDA; FAO; and the AfDB. He has more recently applied his expertise to advise NEPAD, Africa Union Commission, UNECA and CAADP on agriculture and land issues in Africa.
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