‘De Aesthetic: Writing with and from the Black Sonic’ (2021) is a book of essays by Johannesburg-based artist, jazz percussionist and thinker Tumi Mogorosi. The essays focus on the Black Sonic as a dislocated episteme, which identifies the aesthetic as a limitation. In their de-centring, the texts fundamentally open a way to write and read beyond hegemonic knowledge validations. As a reading that straddles between Brenda Fassie, Louis Armstrong, Louis Moholo-Moholo and Sade, they are in visual conversation with symbols created by Emeka Alams of Gold Coast Trading Company. For this session Mogorosi will be joined by art critic and theorist Athi Mongezeleli Joja to discuss the Preface of the book.

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