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Kapwani Kiwanga
Ifa Organ, 2013

Performance, perforated barrel organ card

Ifa-Organ associates Ifa; a binary divination system practiced principally in Nigeria, Benin, and their diasporas; and the barrel organ originating in Eastern and Central Europe. An Ifa … Read More

Ifa-Organ associates Ifa; a binary divination system practiced principally in Nigeria, Benin, and their diasporas; and the barrel organ originating in Eastern and Central Europe. An Ifa priest in Benin performed a remote consultation at Kapani Kiwanga’s request. This divination produced a series of signs that were then transposed onto a card for a barrel organ through perforations. When played, the card produces a repetitive music which broadcasts the oracle into public space. The perforated card is at once a sonic and visual object. When inactivated by the organ, the card is displayed in the exhibition space inviting the viewer to decipher the divination codes.

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Kapwani Kiwanga - Ifa-Organ, 2013
Performance
Kapwani Kiwanga - Ifa-Organ, 2013
Performance
Kapwani Kiwanga - Ifa-Organ, 2013
Kapwani Kiwanga
Ifa-Organ, 2013
Perforated barrel organ card
13 × 450 cm
Edition of 5 + 1 AP
Kapwani Kiwanga - Ifa-Organ, 2013
Kapwani Kiwanga
Ifa-Organ, 2013
Perforated barrel organ card
13 × 450 cm
Edition of 5 + 1 AP
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