Cosmology

Cosmology was conceived as an action research project and artists' residency featuring leading anthropologist of sound, Steven Feld and colleagues from Ghana, The Anyaa Arts Quartet, comprising sculptor, community arts archivist, and activist, musician and instrument inventor Nii Noi Nortey, master percussionist and bass player Nii Otoo Annan, and Amsterdam-based flutist Alex Coke. The musical focus of the residency was to establish a proverbial pan-African call and response between Johannesburg and Accra by exploring how jazz has articulated notions of cosmopolitanism in the two African cities and beyond.