Black Aquatics is a sound performance realized in collaboration with Gerald Odil, and produced as part of the larger project “Axecidyr” (made w/ Diogo da Cruz).
This performance is a poetic and political journey, conceived as a space for immersive listening, aquatic memory, and collective speculation. Combining text, song, vocal collage, and live electronic
music, it explores the continuities and fractures of Afro-diasporic history through the prism of the ocean, voice, and sound. The piece is inspired by Paul Gilroy's “Black Atlantic” and Alexis Pauline Gumbs's
“Undrowned”, seminal works in their approach to the flows, displacements, and survivals of the Black diaspora as forms of knowledge, resistance, and life.
