We are now starting a series of posts in our library, the intention of which is to build a space for multiple dialogues by sharing music by indigenous and African artists, inviting them to an exercise in deep listening. As well as listening, we seek to feel these compositions, instigating aesthesis, understood here as the process of releasing the senses. We seek to encourage the act of self-examination in ourselves as well as in you, broadening perspectives and senses and learning from the exchange between cultures and ways of being in the world. After all, as the Nigerian Igbo writer Chinua Achebe says, good art changes things.
In this way, we provide commentary on the songs and artists, as well as selected materials from the fields of post-colonial and decolonial studies, enabling you to create your own path of feeling.
AYA LABORATÓRIO 