Takudzwa Mukesi | Echoes from Black (w)holes: (Form)ularising Singularity

Performative Reading

Affect, Memory, and Sensation

This presentation stages a form of ritual forensics—not the reconstruction of a single truth, but the activation of traces. The voice becomes an instrument for discerning what persists beneath the dominant narratives—what lingers, what transforms, what adheres to the body and endures. It articulates the conditions of appropriation of various haunting phenomena that have been buried without resolution. It creates spaces; the audience is not positioned as passive listeners, but as witnesses within this field of emergence. Listening here means drawing near to unstable forms, encountering modes of expression that oscillate between revelation and distortion.

The voice functions as a carrier of residues. It moves through the body before it is understood and manifests as vibration, interruption, and dissonance. It layers affect, memory, and sensation in a way that transcends language.

In this way, it enables us to travel through time and engage in a dialogue with the past.