Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Symposium | SESSION #5: Nombuso Mathibela and Sibonelo Gumede – Phoshoza

In this session of the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Symposium, cultural worker, educator, researcher and vinyl selector Nombuso Mathibela and urbanist and cultural worker Sibonelo Gumede  presented their artist research project “Phoshoza” which is an ongoing sound-based archival transgenerational artistic research project that explores Princess Constance Magogo Sibilile Mantithi Ngangezinye kaDinizulu’s ugubhu traditional sound and photographic family archive. The project aims to position Princess Magogo's music and cultural production as an ecological practice by engaging with the bow instrument as an ecosphere. An approach intended to facilitate an examination of the intangible Loss and Damage inflicted by the climate crisis on cultural heritage and identity as well as its connection to colonial modernity in South Africa.

See Nombuso and Sibonelo's digitial restitution here.