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"Free entry! You are about to enter the bizarre afro-futurist world of Dzata. A science-faction research institute fusing South African ancestral knowledge and solar-punk technology for utopian production. The findings of the institute will be presented for your education via feature film and ‘nomadic future folk’ soundtrack in the Arnolfini auditorium."
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A event held at Arnolfini on Sunday 2nd April. The event starts at 11:00.
Dzata is a network
Dzata is a school
Dzata is a fictional institute of technological consciousness
Prepare to enter the Dzata institute: lodef.co.za/Dzata. Start by making a backpack, which is also a laboratory containing the cosmos. Traverse the realms of ancestral handwork, networks of things and people, and mobile laboratories set amongst forests floors, rivers data systems, and dreamstates. Remember to resist the glare of radiant pixels.
The fictional institute is set up by South African artists Russel Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze, and Amy Louise Wilson which is a repository of technological practices across the African continent over the past centuries. They present an in-house film made by the artists as channeled by various scientists to archive Dzata’s extensive work.
Part documentary, part poetry, the meditative and transportive film is an assemblage of found footage, collages, costume, and performance, crafted together with an original soundtrack to create an intimate and visceral history of the Dzata Institute.
The film will be screened on loop with original soundtrack in the Arnolfini auditorium, 11am-6pm, 1st and 2nd April (free, no booking required).
Dzata is part of the Control Shift Feeling Machines programme: https://www.control-shift.network/.
The project was supported by Mozilla Foundation under the Creative Media Awards.
Entry requirements:
Dzata is a school
Dzata is a fictional institute of technological consciousness
Prepare to enter the Dzata institute: lodef.co.za/Dzata. Start by making a backpack, which is also a laboratory containing the cosmos. Traverse the realms of ancestral handwork, networks of things and people, and mobile laboratories set amongst forests floors, rivers data systems, and dreamstates. Remember to resist the glare of radiant pixels.
The fictional institute is set up by South African artists Russel Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze, and Amy Louise Wilson which is a repository of technological practices across the African continent over the past centuries. They present an in-house film made by the artists as channeled by various scientists to archive Dzata’s extensive work.
Part documentary, part poetry, the meditative and transportive film is an assemblage of found footage, collages, costume, and performance, crafted together with an original soundtrack to create an intimate and visceral history of the Dzata Institute.
The film will be screened on loop with original soundtrack in the Arnolfini auditorium, 11am-6pm, 1st and 2nd April (free, no booking required).
Dzata is part of the Control Shift Feeling Machines programme: https://www.control-shift.network/.
The project was supported by Mozilla Foundation under the Creative Media Awards.
Entry requirements:
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