Thandi Loewenson, “A Taxonoy of Flight” (2021) – FESCH.TV

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Thandi Loewenson, “A Taxonomy of Flight” (2021)

This is an account of the failed search for the burial site of an astronaut and freedom fighter interred at Leopard’s Hill Cemetery, Lusaka, Zambia. It is an account of a fallen comrade, grounded in the line of flight by a pregnancy and a failed funding bid. It is an account of rocks holding court towards freedom, red soil mobilised to kick up life, of blown up bridges and of Broken Hills become collapsed mine shafts, blackened Earth and reservoirs of toxic life. It is an account of sons and daughters of the soil – openings dotted around the graveyard – who resisted to remain free and died in exile to be later exhumed and sent home to countries of which only dreams existed when they passed. This is an account of the movement of Earth.