Thank you to our incredible Artists and Contributors
Vernon Reid
Performer, composer, documentarian and multimedia artist. Founding member of Living Colour and the Black Rock Coalition.
Okwui Okpokwasili
Performer, choreographer, multidisciplinary artist. Titles include: Bronx Gothic and Poor People’s TV Room.
Carl Hancock Rux
Performer, playwright, poet. Titles include: The Baptism (directed by Carrie Mae Weems) and Talk.
Lynnée Denise
Artist, scholar, writer, and DJ whose work reflects on underground cultural movements, the 1980s, migration studies, theories of escape, and electronic music of the African Diaspora.
Tshepang Ramoba
Singer, songwriter, drummer, producers and film music supervisor.
Anique Jordan
Multi-disciplinary artist, writer, curator and entrepreneur.
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Rhea Storr
Artist filmmaker and researcher investigating Black Radical Imagination as realised through experimental cinema.
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Trevor Mathison
Artist, composer, sound designer, and founding member of The Black Audio Film Collective.
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Michael McMillan
Writer, playwright, artist/curator and academic; Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical Studies at London College of Fashion (UAL), and Research Associate with VIAD.
Jonzi D
MC, dancer, spoken word artist and director. Founder and Artistic Director of Jonzi D Projects and Breakin' Convention
Dr Kholeka Shange
Writer and educator currently based in the Anthropology department at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Geri Augusto
Longtime scholar and former activist at the intersection between the politics of knowledge.
Ihab S Balla
Anti-disciplinary artist and educator based in Australia. They are concerned with the quotidian poetics and global tonalities of Black subjectivities; at the intersection of theory, black feminist pedagogy, and collaborative practice.
Click here to Explore Set 1: Black Phonic Substance
Click here to explore set 2: Radical Imagination of the Ordinary
Click here to explore set 3: Erased Bodies Which Speak
Click here to watch our interview with Prof Bogues on Heritage and Heresy
Click here to meet the Black Sonic curators and hear their playlists