Cooperativa Musical: the new Mozambican alternative music platform
Mozambican curators, music producers and cultural managers have come together to boost the production and visibility of local alternative music, in an innovative project that creates a digital platform that makes music available openly.
BLACK LAND festival honours the Egyptian goddess in Berlin
The BLACK LAND: RED LAND – RESTITUTE festival will make use of the collection of the Egyptian Museums in Berlin and Turin in a programme of music, art, talks and other activities.
Miami Art Week focuses on “Global Africa”
During Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 and Miami Art Week 2023, African diasporas will take centre stage through a programme entitled “Art of Transformation: AFRICA GLOBAL” by Ten North Group.
Pizzawpineapples on the tour of South African musician Bongeziwe Mabandla
The young Mozambican artist Pizzawpineapples is on the tour to present the new album by the award-winning South African musician Bongeziwe Mabandla, entitled “amaXesha”. The tour of shows in South Africa will culminate with a performance on October 27th in Maputo. Presented and featured in Maputo Fast Forward’s residency project, New Kids – a musical […]
Augmented reality turns museum objects into digital games
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is moving closer to the metaverse in an attempt to turn museum visits into an impactful experience. This is an unprecedented experience, through an app called “Replica”, which allows visitors to The Met to digitise works of art and bring elements of the works digitally into the global immersive platform […]
Painting by Suzy Bila at the Macao Art Biennale
“Interior Landscapes” is the title of the exhibition by Mozambican artist Suzy Bila, part of the parallel exhibitions of Art Macao, Macau International Art Biennale 2023. The painting works are on display at Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau Hotel Lobby, organised and curated by Amagao Gallery. Suzy Bila, who stands out from the diaspora, paints emotions […]
Vibrating waistcoats translate music for the deaf
An audio specialist has programmed haptic vests designed to allow spectators who are deaf or hard of hearing to experience orchestral music. This innovation breaks new ground among initiatives to improve inclusion in live music performances. At a classical concert at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center in the US, audiences experienced the wireless waistcoats, with 24 vibration […]
“Culture is a weapon for peace”, Barthélémy Toguo.
Barthélémy Toguo, born in Cameroon in 1967, trained at various art schools (in Côte d’Ivoire, France and Germany), is an internationally renowned artist whose works are exhibited in numerous collections (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Musée Rodin, Fondation Vuitton in Paris, Tate Modern in London, MoMA in New York). Named UNESCO Artist for Peace in October […]
Conference brings together professionals to “re-humanise” Design
In these times when sophisticated software is appearing every day under the pretext of making people’s work easier and machines are increasingly taking over human tasks, including, it seems, that of creating, the DEZAINE Conference calls for “re-humanising”. One can understand, according to DEZAINE, that the intention is to enter the world of creatives and […]
