Join Paul Stan Nataraj for a listening session based on a sonic conversation with Masimba Hwati.
Masimba Hwati is a multi-disciplinary artist who works internationally. He holds an MFA from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and is a PhD in Art practice, candidate at Akademie der Bildenden Künste -Wien. He is a CWPS Umich(Center for World Performance studies) 2019 fellow. He is also a 2019 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni. He studied sculpture at Harare Polytechnic in Zimbabwe. He has shown in several prestigious places internationally is collected in various Museums worldwide.Sonic signatures, edited by Derek Purdue, Alibhe Kenny, Katie Young, 2023; Sokunge 2021; der Seeteufel, 2022.Hwati lives and works in Vienna and Harare.Albums Include lakes Nights 2020,Hwati Collino 2022 release dunder Alien passengers Label in Warren Michigan.
Paul Stan Nataraj is an audio maker from Blackburn in Lancashire. His PhD project ‘You Sound Like a Broken Record’, was voted in the top ten experimental albums of the year by 'A Closer Listen' magazine 2018. His work explores musical materiality, memory, the personal stories attached to music, and how our relationship with listening and the listened to, changes over time. His last album ‘Cobblestones & Kitchari’ was released in May 2020 on Fractal Meat Cuts. He is currently working as a researcher on the 'Migrant Memory and the Postcolonial Imagination' project for Loughborough University.
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This event will take place in Gallery One.
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