Yes - typically, we've allowed posts from Radio Web MACBA to the list as
they usually seemed related to electronic music in some way. Similarly
with Galactic Travels and other such messages. The event described here
sounds fascinating and I'd try to see it if I were in Barcelona, but it
does feel quite off-topic. I don't know who's behind the MACBA email
alias cc'd here, but I'd ask that they consider the audience next time
they post, and make sure that what they're posting is relevant. Thanks,
Brian
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, nicholas.piet33@gmail.com wrote:
quoted 60 lines I was extremely confused when I saw this in my inbox.
> I was extremely confused when I saw this in my inbox.
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> From: Radio Web MACBA <rwm2008@gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 21:25
> To: idm list <idm@hyperreal.org>
> Subject: New podcast: FAKA alk about performing masculinity and self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism, South African pop culture in the 90s and racialised queer bodies
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> New podcast: Desire Marea and Fela Gucci (aka FAKA) talk about performing masculinity and self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism, South African pop culture in the 90s, racialised queer bodies,
> music as a medium and dealing with contradictions
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> Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/faka/capsula
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> Desire Marea and Fela Gucci are the duo behind FAKA, a cultural platform from the heart of South Africa whose primary goal is to create alternative representations of black queer identity. Given that
> the notion of gender is heavily influenced by Western culture, FAKA defend that African identities in general are queer, because they don't conform to the same patterns.
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> FAKA's artistic activism is modelled on the anti-apartheid cultural movement, but also employs strategies from advertising and pop culture. Although the duo work with all kinds of media (texts,
> photography, performance...), they mainly use music, drawing on sources ranging from queer hip hop (Mikky Blanco, Lelf, House of Ladosha...) to nineties South African afropop (Branda Fassie, Boom
> Shaka...) and local genres such as gqom.
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> Out of these influences, FAKA generate highly complex cultural products in which voguing intersects South African cruising spots, reality shows, gender theory, and gospel hymns. Aside from their
> capacity to absorb and mix cultural codes from very different fields, FAKA manage to be combative without sacrificing vulnerability in their fight for civil rights.
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> Desire Marea and Fela Gucci talk about performing masculinity and self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism, South African pop culture in the 90s, racialised queer bodies, music as a medium and
> dealing with contradictions.
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> Timeline
> 03:30 Queer Africa
> 04:27 Introductions
> 10:35 Family matters
> 14:13 Missions
> 17:11 Homophobia and misogyny in South Africa
> 21:19 Influences
> 24:18 Language matters
> 25:31 Kwaito
> 27:55 Uyang'khumbula
> 29:23 South African pop culture in the 90s
> 31:07 Brenda Fassie
> 31:42 Gqom
> 36:40 The Factory
> 44:05 The body as a medium
> 49:36 Contradictions
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