The construction and archiving of culture is often analysed and documented through words, yet 93% of communication is not verbal. Join Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe in her re-constructed lounge room as she live-transcribes visitors’ conversations into Western music scores and Rwandan hieroglyphs.

Kabanyana Kanyandekwe will question, listen, transcribe into and perform from the scores on the walls of her re-constructed lounge room.

She invites you to become part of the work as she poses the questions: ‘Ancestry?’ on Saturday and ‘Legacy?’ on Sunday. Sonic Hieroglyphs continues a conversation in the archive Kabanyana Kanyandekwe began in 2007. This work exposes her construction and archival of identity as a ‘third-culture kid’ through graphic scores, narrative ceremony, and cultural contextualisation via crossgenerational conversations.