Mmakgosi Kgabi: On vocals/BOSS RC 202 Loop station and other noise/sound instruments

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PAN-GEA Global South-South Festival – Queer Beyond
27–30 July | Theater Ballhaus Prinzenallee, Berlin-Wedding
Free Entry!

28 July — Mmakgosi Kgabi 
Voice Performance | Afrofuturist Ritual

Mma Kgosi – a busker on the train platform, a tavern queen, a boudoir singer, a hunter gather-er, a healer, a seeker, a see-er.
Mma Kgosi the Ndebele-Tswana boi writer switches and shuffles their singing like ever-changing radio stations. They use vocal play and silence too. Inspired by Afrofuturism, African histories and African presence they seek to turn time upside down and turn the wheel, not reinvent it. This is an experimental sound art performance on voice looping.

Global South-South Festival  - Queer Beyond
Format & Flow:
Each evening features:
> Performative rituals, screenings, sound explorations
> Collective gatherings in the garden for drinks, conversation, and informal exchange

27 – 30 July / Free entry

PAN-GEA Global South-South Festival is a transdisciplinary open-air festival held over four evenings in the backyard of Theater Ballhaus Prinzenallee in Berlin-Wedding. The festival brings together audiovisual, performative, and sonic contributions by diasporic voices from the Global South, including artists, researchers, activists, and those who move across disciplines.It centers decolonial perspectives, plural cosmologies, and embodied reflections on identity, territory, and resistance.
In its 2025 edition, PAN-GEA proposes to (re)think queerness not only as an identity, but as a critical methodology a way of producing knowledge, feeling, and resistance. This proposal emerges from a concrete urgency: to create frameworks that enable and sustain modes of existence, expression, and thought that operate as dissidence practices that resist normativity through other languages such as ritual, embodiment, spirituality, and collective experience.

What ways of thinking and knowing queerness exist in the experiences of the Global South that have been ignored, or misread by colonial epistemologies?
And what kind of space must we create so that these forms are not only seen, but held, without being translated, adapted, or asked to justify themselves?

In this context, queerness is no longer reducible to an identity category or a politics of visibility; it becomes an act of epistemic disobedience that resists assimilation into the frameworks of the Global North. It emerges as a materialized memory, present in Indigenous cosmologies, spiritual traditions, everyday gestures of resistance, and lived experiences shaped by migration, racialization, structural violence, and unruly desire Here, queerness is embraced as a disruptive force, one that unsettles dominant narratives of binary gender, linear time, development, normativity, and social order.

PAN-GEA is not a space for representation or identity consolidation, but a site of resonance, co-presence, and relational listening.

not from north vision but from south self-claim
not from academical knowledge but from local experiences
not from macro solutions but micro exercises
not from ecological activism but from multicultural approaches
not from political frontiers but from personal identities
 

The events take place primarily in English. However, many contributions are highly performative and visual, so fluent English is not required to engage meaningfully.

Most activities take place in the garden area of Theater Ballhaus Prinzenallee. lease note that the space is not barrier-free. We recognize these limitations and are committed to creating more accessible spaces in the future.