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+Plus Factors exhibition, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2006
Madrid Abierto, Arte Sonoro program, Madrid, 2007
2-channel audio
listen/download the 20min Full Project
individual segments 2-4min each: Mmapelo - Habib - Zweli - Carlos - Francess - Valanga - Prisca
About the work
Reiterations is an imagined sound-space made in the city-spaces of Melbourne, Australia. We follow a series of Africans who are now living in Melbourne, inhabiting their listening perspectives as they sing and move about the city. Our starting point is Elizabeth Street, a major transport node for recent arrivals using the north and west bound tram routes.
Reiterations are things that are said or done again - but not always in the same way, in the same place. A reiteration can be a repetition with difference. Voices: Mmapelo Malatji (Botswana), Habib Chanzi (Tanzania), Zweli Tlhabane (Swaziland), Carlos Panguana (Mozambique), Francess Kalon (Sierra Leone), Valanga Khoza (South Africa), Prisca Cradick (Kenya).
Responses
'Into this hub of urban noise Leber and Chesworth have sent their individual travellers to walk and sing their way through the city. Songs that once described the pulverising of corn, or the happy return of mothers from the field...enter into the urban village of Melbourne... These African voices seem authentic and exuberant...percussive and urgent. This sense of urgency perhaps represents the larger struggle that accompanies the condition of those caught up in the diaspora, and the reserve of strength it takes to enter a new place and space while keeping a cultural memory and life intact. '
Juliana Engberg, +Plus Factors exhibition catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2006
read full essay at Madrid Abierto
listen to artist interview at ACCA website
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