Description
Join us for a Sonic lecture ‘Toyi-Toyi’ with exhibiting artist Masimba Hwati, as part of Sustaining the Otherwise: Practicing Freedom and Refusal. Toyi-Toyi activates sound, movement, and collective memory as living archives of struggle. Drawing from Chidzimbahwe philosophies of sound and liberation, Masimba Hwati invites audiences into a pedagogy of humility, where listening involves the whole body and understanding emerges through movement, proximity, and collective pulse. This references southern Africa’s history of protest and liberation movement. Toyi-Toyi is a high-kneed foot-stomping dance, rhythmically punctuated by chants and call and response. 19:00 Doors open. 19:30 Performance lecture start.
Participants
- MHMasimba Hwati