Something more than Gibberish Episode 22 - Tariro Mavondo

In this episode, Stephanie and Rainier feature Tariro Mavondo (IG: @tariro.mavondo) from Melbourne Australia. This segment expounds on selected poetry by featured guests. 

Tariro’s poetry is somatic, a loud eruptive invitation to enlist oneself to presence as the passageway into experiencing the sensorium of human and non human kinship. Tariro is an artist whose life’s work is tethered to re-villagising, unifying through similarities and difference and making a post humanist world where all things seen and unseen, known and unknown thrive.

Tariro has been a featured poet at Slamalamadingdong, Better Of Said, Melbourne Spoken Word and Poetry Festival, Passionate Tongue, Mother Tongue, Emerging Writer’s Festival, African Music and Cultural Festival, Melbourne Poets Union. She has been published in Growing Up African in Australia Black Inc Books and Going Down Swinging.

Tariro was nominated for an Aria Music Award in 2021 with her collaboration with The Australian Art Orchestra for Best Jazz Album last year and won an APRA AMCOS award for Work of the Year: Electroacoustic/Sound Art, for Closed Beginnings.

Tariro left her dream job to get lost in tropical jungles around the world for a year and co-mingle with wild natural territories and re-member the vernaculars and ontologies of soils, rivers, waterfalls, frogs, birds, tree branches, ocean, plants, flowers, skies. After living in Barbados an island in the Caribbean for a year, Tariro has returned to Australia to co-direct Maxine Beneba Clarke’s theatrical production of The Hate Race at Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne in 2024.

Sincere thanks to GeminiFox, always a pleasure hosting the show each week with you, thank you Gemini.