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Milky's Immortality (2017)

Director - Clayton Pettet

Co Director - Paya Boon

Blender - Munesu Mukombe

Milky - Daisy Waterstone

Frazer Frazer - Tamir Pettet

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Performed and exhibited in the show Woke: Beyond The Voyage at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (2019) 

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Colored Body (2015) 

Film 

Video stills & documentation of work 

Shown in “(Enter – Greek chorus into the echo chamber)” curated by Liv Wynter at the David Roberts Art Foundation (2017)

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Crane Flower (2017)

Recording of a Poem

When I was growing up there were crane flowers (birds of paradise) in a bundle in front of my house

I remember my father I remember when the glass table split like a ghost in the backyard I remember a Miscarriage and a thief (me) I remember dry humping a pillow silent guilty pleasure

I remember me young I remember me now a body so high with politics and grief, it requires a daily newspaper.

mirror like bodies carry mimicry of life black bodies turn into black voids

I had a dream last night of when I met the state.

A crane flower       so pure climbed out of my throat, dug its roots on my tongue and shook their hand with its bud.

Hard lived teeth I bite on the stem before they have the chance to yank it out.

I remember the crane flower bobbing back and forth with enthusiasm in front of my house

I wonder if it was warning me or if it was giddy with delight.

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Crane Flower (2017) 

Performed in the show  “Botanophilia” at the Chalton Gallery (2017) 

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Heat (2016)

Performance Stills   

The artist and accompanying performers recited a series of vignettes exploring concepts of belonging and migration in the setting of a communal sauna 

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Blue (2017)

Recording of Poem 

An Instillation where the artist flooded a room with blue light while the poem played on repetition through surround sound speakers 

The depths of blue the feelings of blue the mourning of my blue. Blue is a scattered love that disappears and reappears and moves me. How is it possible that so many shades can mean so many things? The blue of my parents matching shoes. That was love. The blue of my dads motorcycle jacket. I paint tears blue on paper but we know that grief is translucent clear I can see right through you. The blue of his Friday navy uniform. The camo looked like digital different shaded blue squares What electric techno virus are you hiding from? He had these melancholy i’ll cry quietly if you pinch me eyes Blue was his constant state Blue was who he was. Blue blue blue.

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CV - Munesu Mukombe (2020- 2015)

Education 

2014- 2015 BA (Hons) Fine Art Extension Degree (Distinction)

2015-2018 BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree (2:1) 

2019- 2019 South London Gallery Film School 

Selected Group Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances

2024

Reel: Dyke Hands, Curated by Languid Hands, 198 Contemporary Art & Learning, London

Voice and Breath: Ordinary Dreams, Curated by Olivia Douglass, Tate Modern, London

2023

Nativity, Performance by Rosa- Johan Uddoh, The Woman’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, Cambridge

2021 

Prim Black Launch Party, Prim Black, Box Park Shoreditch, London 

2019 

Performance Lab Cities Imageries, UCL Urban Laboratories, University College London, London 

Black Obsidian Sound System: Club Night, Black Obsidian Sound System, Somerset House, London    

Woke: Beyond The Voyage, True Colour Collective,  The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, curated by True Colour Collective 

The Table, The Swiss Church, London, curated by Mariana Lemos 

2018

Ear Wax at The Young Vic, Earwax, The Young Vic, London   

SK Fest, Curated by Olivia Douglas, The Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London  

Goldsmiths BFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths University, London 

Sisters Uncut Social, Sisters Uncut, London  

Hot Messes with Messy Bodies, Messy Bodies, Goldsmiths University, London 

Litter Frogs Film and Music Night, The White Hart, London, curated by Mattina Hiwaizi 

2017

(Enter – Greek chorus into the echo chamber), David Roberts Art Foundation, London, Curated by Liv Wynter  

Botanophilia, Chalton Gallery, London, curated by Kefiloe Siwisa & John Kenneth Paranada

The Other’d Artist , Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, curated by Travis Alabanza 

2016

Fuck What They Think @ Gay Bar, Ormside Projects, London, curated by Rosie Hastings & Hannah Quinlan 

F*ck The Patriarchy Lets Party, Goldsmiths Feminist society, Goldsmiths University, London 

Sauce, Harts Lane Studios, London 

Awards 

2018 

Goldsmiths Wardens Prize 2018 Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths University 

Music Videos 

2019

MB by Sad Queers Club 

2017

Margot by Charmpit