hopePlate 039 · Cape Town, South Africa

Robben Island

A prison island that became a museum, because a prisoner became a president.

17th c. / prison 1961–96 · Colonial and apartheid state · Africa

The chamber score

Rhythms of Resistance, toyi-toyi climate

Township traditional · 20th c.

A fortress of the Cape still has to hear the march.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO island, a monument of political imprisonment and of freedom.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Robben Island through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Robben Island was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.