CONCERT: MARK MUSHIVA. FINISSAGE OF THE INSTITUTE OF DECOLONIAL TECHNOLOGY
The exhibition Mark Mushiva The Institute of Decolonial Technology at TRAFO will be rounded off with a concert performance during which the artist will premiere music from his latest album Turbo Summation, scheduled for release at the turn of February and March.
Written around the themes of cyberpunk, African accelerationism and urban subculture, Mushiva aims to express and clearly highlight the strong connections between technology and hip-hop. Hip-hop is more than just the appropriation of Japanese technology by the descendants of African slaves, it is a primary sphere of interaction between black people and technology. Turbo Summation expands on these concepts, drawing on the expressive power of lyricism and invention as tools for speculative world-building – visions of alternative futures through the prism of electronic music’s original foundation, the synthesizer.
The performance will be followed with a screening of a short musical film.
About the exhibition: The future is not neutral. For centuries, technological advancements in Africa have been shaped by colonial frameworks that privilege Western narratives of progress. In The Institute of Decolonial Technology: African Accelerationism, Berlin-based Namibian artist Mushiva challenges these dominant paradigms by imagining technologies rooted in African liberation and self-determination. His speculative 3D-printed objects and digital renders envision a decolonial future — one that reclaims technology as a tool of African resistance and futurism.
Mark Mushiva is a Berlin-based Namibian street poet, rapper and technologist. One-third of the award-winning Hip-Hop poetry group lack Vulcanite and professionally trained as a computer scientist (PhD with the University of Trento, Italy), Mushiva uses these two experiences to access and project Afro-Accelerationist visions, the idea that suggests that a deep, rapid and radical adoption of computer technology by African people can counteract the adverse effects of racial capitalism.
Partners: TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin (Poland), CTM Festival (Germany), GMEA – National Center for Music Creation of Albi-Tarn (France), OUT.RA – Associação Cultural (Portugal), SKAŅU MEŽS FESTIVAL (Latvia), Q-O2 (Belgium).
In collaboration with: The Academy of Art in Szczecin
Further information: https://trafo.art/en/mark-mushivainstytut-technologii-dekolonialnejafrykanski-akceleracjonizm/