We are very pleased to share Nombuso Mathibela and Sibonelo Gumede’s digital restitution, "Phoshoza" which presents the research that they have undertaken as part of the year long Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage research residency. Access the digital restitution via the link below.

Phoshoza is an ongoing sound-based archival transgeneratonal artistic research project that explores Princess Constance Magogo Sibilile Mantithi Ngangezinye kaDinizulu’s ugubhu traditional sound and photographic family archive. This project aims to position Princess Magogo's music and cultural production as an ecological practice by engaging with the bow instrument as an ecosphere. This approach facilitates 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 .

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Nombuso Mathibela is a cultural worker, educator, researcher and vinyl selector based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the founder of Jewel Scents & Song, a pan African research and production studio.

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^{Image credit: Zivanai Matangi}

Sibonelo Gumede is an urbanist and cultural worker based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Gumede’s practice is concerned with engaging with the temporalities of colonial afterlives through spatial markers, with the aim of fostering connective memory and reparative practices.

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The Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage program is supported by the Open Society Foundations and is a part of the Loss and Damage Collaboration’s Art and Culture program.

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