nora chipaumire

In “Dambudzo”, nora chipaumire creates a house of sound, sculpture, and live performance that invites people to think about freedom and colonialism. In a relaxed setting, the audience and artists imagine new, free worlds together.

In an installation of sculpture and sound, animated by a live performance, the anti-disciplinary artist nora chipaumire creates a house of opportunity that is both radical and participatory. “Dambudzo” – meaning “trouble” in Shona – brings to life the ideas of radical African thinkers, interwoven with chipaumire’s own thoughts and experiences, current political realities, and the ongoing resistance to (neo)colonial control. In a relaxed private bar, the artistic team awakens the promise of freedom, and invites the audience to evoke new worlds together.

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Artist's Note by nora chipaumire

“Dambudzo is a name, a desire, a lament, an aspiration, an inspiration, even a loathing — a poem — that speaks to the 1980s before the fall of communism and the end of apartheid.

A conversation with Zimbabwe‘s enfant terrible Dambudzo Marechera and the Bhundu Boys, a band that rocked the youth with JIT — a hopeful, bright sound, which has since waned as we all wit- ness the many heads the capitalist, colonial empire keeps growing... Independence has meant becoming less capable.

Dambudzo’s large-scale paintings, on plastic, allow the room to be divided into intimate spaces and or opened into larger public spaces. The house built by Dambudzo — a house of hunger – is a shabini. In my endeavour, the neighbourhood and the residents of the house live life each minute with zest and abandon.

Beauty, love, and violence are spoken in one breath... The street enters the house, and the house is the street.

The humans who populate the house are, variably, musicians, revolutionaries, tricksters, and sellouts – they are constantly remind- ed of the larger game at play, the empire-settler colonialism, by the sound of barking dogs (Rhodesian ridgebacks).” 

— nora chipaumire