bhuku 1

nora chipaumire

bhuku 1
All 10 booklets within the set, each with photos documenting the performance on their covers, fanned out.
Photo of the spines of all 10 booklets
Spread of one of the booklets, of a dancer on his knees, looking upwards, and hands in a position akin to that which one adopts while praying, though with a 6-inch-or-so separation between the hands; the dancer is in front of several blackboards with writing on them.
Image of one of the covers of the booklets, of a dancer in front of a blackboard.
Text in sans-serif font, no capitals, entitled "de code X"
text on a white page: "de code X I sleve nothing"
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Publisher:
nora chipaumire

an artbook containing 10 unique nhaka - de|code - notebooks | on theory | philosophy | animist technolgies

designed for the future artist

limited edition 100

images by jesus robisco, shika mohamed yousry , javier sanchez

printed at Fragma, Madrid

from the artist:

one must , as a dancer know where  

Mabvazuwa | east 

Madokero | west 

Mahodzanyemba | south 

Machanhembe | north 

are, in oder to make the correct orientation in which to begin the sacred work of taking care of the body , others and the environment...

[chek it] pasi chigare | pasi pakatambarara | in old | ancient times | in non times 

the human animal had the ability to speak to its past |  present | future selves via the conduit generally referred to as the ancestor | spirt | mhepo |  wind | this conduit has revealed itself to different time zones  |  geographies and unleashed its power surges  using various  names |  the future for  black beings  is unfolding in the present | beyond digital capacities | 

Nhaka | is cartography of animist technologies | a text on the  mesmerizing lives of those chosen | and the new generation | born in culture 

part of a seminal generation of nhaka experts, bhuku carries nhaka Philosophy into the world

Year
2021
Length
128 pages
Binding
10 28-page staple-bound booklets, wrapped in paper
Dimensions
13 x 19 x 3.5 cm.

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