Stolen Moments

Exhibition: Stolen Moments - Namibian Music History Untold

The exhibition Stolen Moments – Namibian Music History Untold – tells the story of Namibian popular music of the 50s up until the 80s, that has been censored and made impossible by the South African apartheid-regime. Stolen Moments is an memory-archaeological search for clues, a reconstruction of lost song good and musical history, that is threatened by immediate disappearance. An encounter with the Namibia from the time before independence and, at the same time, a collection of stories whose tellers will soon not be there anymore as well as a big musical resurrection of all that seemed lost. Building on a several-year-long research of the Stolen Moments Research Group, the Namibian curator Aino Moongo has realised a multimedia exhibition project with still-living Namibian musicians and her team. They dedicate themselves to the stories, adventures and experiences of all of those who were essentially involved in the creation of Namibian popular music. The in the independence museum Windhoek fi rmly anchored exhibition can be experienced in parts in Moers. It will be expanded and completed through the discussion #3 (see to page 39) and the special concert “Stolen Moments”. 

Curation: Aino Moongo, Thorsten Schütte 
Adaption: moers festival

Special Concert: Stolen Moments - Namibian Music History Untold

With selected reconstructed songs in diff erent languages, Mark “Moody” Hernadi (Pop Akademie Mannheim” and the Namibian musical cosmopolit Jackson Wahengo have brought a part of the almost lost music culture to a renaissance. Together with musician Shishani that is rooted deeply in the Namibian music scene, and Theresia Philipp, who has also already worked with Namibian musicians (in Namibia), they will exclusively present songs that cannot be heard in the exhibition.