Belinda Zhawi is a Zimbabwean literary and sound artist. She is the author of Small Inheritances(ignitionpress, 2018) and South of South East (Bad Betty Press, 2019), co-founder of literary arts platform BORN::FREE and experiments with sound/text performance as MA.MOYO. Her work has been broadcast and published on various platforms including The White Review, NTS Live, Boiler Room, and BBC Radio 3, 4 and 6. Belinda hosts Juju Fission (RTM FM), a monthly radio broadcast.
By disjointing acts of listening from the ear and its particular arrangement of time, Sonic Continuum proposes a shift from representation to expression and asks: can sound restitute failures to listen? How might we listen to time affectively? What auditory imaginaries and possible futures can listening unfold?
In this newly commissioned sound collage, poet Belinda Zwahi uses poetry, archive footage and music to explore ancestral practices and nonfilial lineage.