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Stages of Tectonic Blackness - 2021 National Performance Network Creation Grant Awardee

I had the pleasure of working with brilliant thinkers, artists, and movers Nikesha Breeze and Miles Tokunow to create this 8 hour performance. I played viola, gourd shakers, a Geiger Counter, and sang . Footage and photos by MK Kennedy

Our guiding questions were

• How can we understand the Anthropocene as a product of racism? (Yusoff, 2018)

• How can we attune to the relation between the halflives of nuclear waste and the afterlives of slavery? (Hartman, 2007)

• How can we refuse the binary of human time and geologic time by offering ritualized elongated mourning to racialized violence / earth violence? (Moten, Harney, 2016)

Produced by Ground Series, cinematography by MK

We are honored to share our work with several museums in 2021 - stay tuned