{"id":24793,"date":"2020-11-16T14:15:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?p=24793"},"modified":"2021-12-02T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:58:23","slug":"zibuyile-zinkisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/zibuyile-zinkisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Zibuyile Zinkisi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,507,500],"project_type":[725,731],"class_list":["post-24793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2020","project-muntu-maxims","project_type-formats","project_type-web-residents"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<em>Zibuyile Zinkisi<\/em> means \u00bbThe return of the Nkisi,\u00ab (Nkisi, plural Minkisi, is a spiritual object) and this work is a continuation of my artistic\/curatorial practice in excavating lost indigenous practices and modalities of the Bantu cosmogony and the creation of speculative archives from oral histories. They address postcolonial anxieties in cyberspace through the integration of indigenous modalities and interfaces into the internet space in forming a continuum of my late grandmother\u2019s practice as a Nyanga. Minkisi appear in two different forms, as assemblages of nondescript objects or wooden figures carved in the form of humans or animals, pierced with iron nails. The word possesses no direct English translation, however it roughly means \u00bbpower object.\u00ab These figures are said to be embedded with \u00bbspiritual powers\u00ab\u00a0that can be activated by a Nyangato and bring about physical or spiritual healing to the patient consulting the Nyanga. Nkisi were also capable of imbuing social balance and justice, and keeping societal moral codes and the well-being of the Kongo Village. My aim is to create a web installation of Minkisi rendered in a 3D environment to (re)create the \u00bbpower figure\u00ab in a digital space as a way of archiving and excavating ancestral and precolonial history. This work explores how we might excavate and archive history in the post-digital age and how we might refigure the internet as a site for reclamation of agency, archiving, and rewriting history in the global imaginary through the use of indigenous interfaces."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_cta","bgcolor":"has-bg-lila","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"cta_link":{"type":"url","value":"https:\/\/webresidencies.akademie-solitude.de\/muntu-maxims\/#2","title":"","target":"1"},"cta_txt":"VISIT THE PROJECT","cta_button_txt":"DIGITAL SOLITUDE ONLINE SPACE"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_cta","bgcolor":"has-bg-red","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"cta_link":{"type":"url","value":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/web-residencies-en\/the-more-people-who-participate-and-believe-in-the-power-of-a-nkisi-the-more-power-it-will-accrue\/","title":"The more people who participate and believe in the power of a nkisi, the more power it will accrue.","target":"0"},"cta_txt":"The more people who participate and believe in the power of a nkisi, the more power it will accrue.","cta_button_txt":"READ AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ARTIST"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=24793"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=24793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}