ReMIX History Panel 1: History Does Not Repeat Itself
Griffin Art Projects’ Adjunct Curator, Dr. Karen Tam, and The Polygon Gallery’s TD Curatorial Fellow, Oluwasayo Olowo-Ake, will co-host an engaging panel discussion with artists and musicians Pebofatso Mokoena (Johannesburg), Mark V. Campbell (Toronto), and Satch Hoyt (Berlin) to explore migration, sound and place. The conversation will delve into acoustic mappings of history, the land and waters, sonic architecture, and the impact that migrations have had on the creation of diasporic and border-crossing sounds and music.
Pebofatso Mokoena was born in 1993 Ekurhuleni, South Africa, now living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his NDip (Visual Art) at the University of Johannesburg and his BA (Visual Art) at Wits with distinction. He is a lecturer in Drawing and Interdisciplinary Presentation at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at UJ. Mokoena has had 4 solo presentations of his work - The Pebofatso Experience, Inside Jobs, Internal Probes, and Neoclassical Taste Matrix currently on show at First Floor Gallery Harare. Group shows include Diptych; Disclosure, Fresh Produce, Songs of Sankofa, Inner Nature, Fortunes Remixed and South African Voices: A New Generation of Printmakers. In 2020, Mokoena received a merit award for the Wits Young Artist Award.
Mark V. Campbell is a DJ, scholar and curator. His research explores the relationships between Afrosonic innovations and notions of the human. Dr. Campbell is currently the Principal Investigator in the SSHRC funded research project, Hip Hop Archives: The Poetics and Potentials of Knowledge Production. His recent books include the monograph AfroSonic Life (2022), the co-edited collection of essays, We Still Here: Hip Hop in North of the 49th Parallel published (in 2020) and his forthcoming co-edited collection Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production with Murray Forman is due out in 2023. Mark is Assistant Professor of Music and Culture at the University of Toronto Scarborough and holds Research Fellow positions with the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence and the Research Centre for Music, Sound and Society in Canada.
Satch Hoyt is a spiritualist, a believer in ritual and retention. A visual artist and a musician, his diverse and multifaceted body of work - whether sculpture, sound installation, painting, musical performance, or musical recording - is united in its investigation of the “Eternal Afro-Sonic Signifier” and its movement across and amid the cultures, peoples, places, and times of the African Diaspora. Those four evocative words (a term coined by Hoyt) refer to the “mnemonic network of sound” that was enslaved Africans’ “sole companion during the forced migration of the Middle Passage.”
Karen Tam is a Tiohtià:ke/Montréal-based artist whose research focuses on the constructions and imaginations of ‘ethnic’ spaces through installations in which she recreates Chinese restaurants, karaoke lounges, opium dens, curio shops and other sites of cultural encounters. She has exhibited her work and participated in residencies in North America, Europe, and China, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the He Xiangning Art Museum. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths (University of London) and a MFA in Sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by Galerie Hugues Charbonneau.
Oluwasayo Taiwo Olowo-Ake is a curator, singer, songwriter, and artist, from Nigeria. She obtained her Master of Arts in Art History (Critical Curatorial Studies) from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Oluwasayo is the curator of 'Oruko mi ni: Reinterpreting Ìbejì', of which the second phase, 'Oruko mi: Taiyewo and Kehinde', was part of the Museum of Anthropology’s 'Sankofa: African Routes: Canadian Roots' exhibition. Oluwasayo is currently the TD Curatorial Fellow at The Polygon Gallery.
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