With Rambisayi Marufu, Melody Howse and Nasheeka Nedsreal

September 20205.

What does a Black visual and sonic practice look and sound like? What creative practice centres Black diasporic and Black femme epistemologies? These are some of the questions that Rambisayi Marufu, Nasheeka Nedsreal and Melody Howseattend to through their own artistic practice and in relation to each other. What emerges is a conversation that has taken place over a year on form, fidelity, collaboration and poetry, as well as registers and modalities that we see reflected through the method of collage. A method and practice that has continued to hold importance and once again prominence within the Black diaspora in the development of a Black visual and sonic grammar. Through this, we are able to tell different kinds of stories that foreground emotion, sensation and feeling, rather than adhering to the binary constraints of temporal linearity and progress narratives that marginalize Black diasporic ways of knowing. As such this piece offers a break in form and an intervention in thinking otherwise. 

https://allegralaboratory.net/breaking-form-practices-of-black-visuality-and-sonority/