Events

While conducting research in Basel at the archives of the Center for African Studies, Yuck Miranda came across visual and textual material about queer migrant workers from Mozambique who worked in South African mines during the 19th and 20th centuries. This led to the creation of the performance “GAYisa”, which is based on archival research in South Africa and Mozambique as well as on documents from the Basel Africa Bibliographies, and combines sound, images, and narratives into a rich audiovisual experience.

In “GAYisa”, Yuck Miranda brings to light homoaffective relationships and survival strategies that emerged in the shafts and mining environments of South Africa. Together with musician Mbalango, dancers João Felisberto Armando and Hélio Arnaldo from Maputo, and the OKRA Collective from Basel, this repressed knowledge is brought to the stage in a documentary performance – in Portuguese as well as in Changana and Tsonga, languages from southern Mozambique.

Performance in Portuguese, Changana, Tsonga with translation into German, French, and English