{"uid":"ECtgCSPLH8RRwoQB","type":"artist","tags":["videoinstallation"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Ungo\/Spaceship","summary":"Rehema Chachage\nUntitled: Ungo\/Spaceship\nAn installation featuring two wooden sculptures, cloves, video, sound, text and sisal rope\n\nThis is a multi-sensory installation which explores history, belonging, and all which transcend physical inheritance. It uses cultural objects to open a gateway to what did or might have happened in the distant past, but intimately connected to my present reality and sense of self. It features two wooden sculptures that take the shape of the 'ungo'.  On them, two projections appear-a video on one, and text on the other. The video features a figure playing \u2018mdako\u2019-a children\u2019s game of throwing and catching pebbles, but in this case, what are thrown and caught are cowry shells. And, the text projection reads: \u201c1. Peta pepeta via vyaiva, ungo navunja; 2. Peta pepea paa angani, mbingu ya saba\u201d, a hard to translate text\/proverbs, but speaks in general of escape\/flight to cloud nine. A sound surrounds the installation, in it we hear a rather known (in Tanzania) childhood chant titled \u2018Watoto wangu eeh\u2026 (to my children)\u2019\n\nWatoto wangu eeh..\nMimi mama yenu,\nSina nguvu tena,\nZa kuua simba,\nSimba ni mkali,\nAliua baba,\nAkaua mama,\nAkaua kaka,\nAkaua dada,\nSasa kimbieni\u2026\n[To my children\u2026\nThis is your mother,\nI no longer have the strength,\nTo fight\/kill the lion,\nThe lion is stong(er),\nIt killed (my) father,\nThen it killed (my) mother,\nThen it killed (my) brother\nThen it killed (my) sister,\nNow run\u2026]","space":"This installation requires a dark (painted black, also poorly lit) and intimate space of at least 6 x 4 square meters. \nThere is need for enough space for the viewers to walk around the installation, as well as have some interactions with every aspect of the installation (since it is a multi-sensory installation, it is important that each of the senses - touch, smell, taste, visual, and audio-are activated through one's experience with the installation)","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V9pPZ1wMoe4","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Rehema","surname":"Chachage","email":"rehemacha@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"TAE162179","address":"Hormayrgasse 51\/15, 1170 Vienna","city":"Vienna","nacionality":"Tanzania","country_id":"16","birthdate":"1987-02-25T23:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1987-02-25T23:00:00.000Z","telephone":"068120882057","web":"www.rehemachachage.com"}