Zara Julius & Zoé Samudzi /// A Funeral For…

For this new episode of our podcast, our two guests are Johannesburg-based artist Zara Julius and regular contributor to The Funambulist Zoé Samudzi. We discuss the contents and forms of A Funeral For…, a book by Zara in collaboration with Zoé about land, indigeneity, death, and sound in southern Africa (in particular South Africa and Namibia) and, beyond, in the spaces of global Blackness.

A Funeral For… is a hand-bound art book created by Zara Julius in collaboration with Zoé Samudzi. It operates at the critical nexus of archival intervention, sonic inquiry, and speculative memory work, proposing a new form of engagement with the spectral remains of empire.