by Made You Look
For their work at the South African pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2024, I constructed the sound component of the immersive installation Dinokana by MADEYOULOOK, a Johannesburg based interdisciplinary artist collaborative between Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho.
The central piece of the Dinokana installation is a 20 minute long, 8-channel sound composition that foregrounds the power and place of rain and water in traditional South African society. Working from historical archive of songs of rain and harvest, the sound piece brings together field recordings of the natural landscape, interviews with generations of land workers, healers and family memory – framed within the structure of a Johannesburg thunderstorm. The sound piece is held within a constructed landscape, referencing the terraced hillsides of Bokoni and a rain-scape made up of resurrection plant clippings. The ‘resurrection plant’ (uvukakwabafile in isiZulu, umazifisi in isiNdebele or Myrothamnus flabellifolius) is characterised by its use in African medicine and traditional cultures but also by its representation of the potency of rain in repair and regeneration in Southern African life.
- flat pink roses
- dinokana – venice biennale
- i seek you in my dreams
- where the wind calls my name
- under the hanging tree
- mafolofolo – documenta 15
- one take grace
- film festival film
- i want to see for myself
- stillborn
- desert
- the man jesus
- imbizo ka mafavuke
- inxeba (the wound)
- urban mermaid
- black president
- the silent form
- creation – moyo – iyeza
- uncles & angels
- security
- television
