Global Blackness Summer School ‘22 / Black Geographies, of Care

#3 “Frequencies of Care” / Tina Campt, with a sonic offering by Zara Julius (hybrid)

In-person gathering: GSA Zone A, 1st Floor JBS Building, 69 Kingsway Ave, Auckland Park

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What does care sound like?

What would it mean to use sound to map the caring relations of our communities?

What would it look and sound like to engage in a sonic practice of care for black communities?

And what would it mean to animate these sounds as a black geography of care?

Presented by Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, Tina Campt, this talk considers the multiple frequencies through which we care for Black bodies. It is an invitation to imagine how we might mobilize these frequencies in ways that make it possible for Black people to live boundlessly, in the fullness of our own idiom. Engaging the work of artists who activate sonic, spatial, and affective frequencies of care, it speculates on these four expansive questions as a way of making visible some of the sonic geographies of care that have allowed black communities to thrive against all odds.

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As part of an ongoing creative dialogue with Tina’s work, social practice artist, cultural researcher and vinyl selector Zara Julius will present a sonic offering/response, commissioned by RGC. We are also excited to announce Udzabukaphi, a multimedia intervention (and alternative cartography) in the space by GSA Masters student Simphiwe Mlambo.

Click here for Tina Campt’s bio / www.zarajulius.com