Profile
Dumama is a nomadic future folk musician, performer, and sonic researcher based in South Africa. As a storyteller and lyricist, Dumama weaves together childhood songs, stories, and personal memories with electronic hues and gestures. She experiments with the divide between traditional oral culture and futuristic, globally-oriented poetics in her embodiment of an African technological consciousness. Her sonic research involves consciously deconstructing and reconstructing archaic modes of representation of (Southern) African sonic and performance culture while activating audiences in her interactive performances. Dumama’s work has been presented at various cultural institutions and festivals, such as SAVVY Contemporary, Gropius Bau, Humboldt Forum, Boiler Room x Total Refreshment Center, Berghain Kantine, and many others. She has been an artist in residence with the Solo Magic Radical Black Femme Project, One Beat Music, Goethe Talents, Red Bull Music, and others.
