Tag: slavery Cape
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Manuscript. Archive of a Procession
Comprising Nine Folders and Numerous Diagrams. Manuscript is an archive of the research that lead to the Procession of Contraceptive Plants and Forgotten Midwives at Middelheim Museum in June 2023. The work consists of over a thousand parts: documents, diagrams, recipes, narratives, hysteries, errorpoems, duets across the Atlantic, working drawings for banners, patterns for pockets,…
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Recipe-as-Archive
Kerrievis, or Pickled Fish as it is also known, is a dish that entangles histories of forced migrations and travelling women. In Taati Niilenge’s Walvis Bay: Our Story (2024) Nangula Shikujele remembers the 1960s in Kuisebmond when fish were plentiful and fishers returning from sea would bring fish for the entire community. The neighbourhood would…