How can artists nurture spirituality, family, and love? How can sound, rhythm and movement activate communal healing effects? What is the impact of noise on current experimental practices? Participants joined composers Joy Guidry, Li(sa E.) Harris, and dancer Dorchel Haqq for an evening of conversation and communication through movement, words, and sound. The discussion framed each artist’s different forms of upbringing in Black culture, and how their varied paths informed improvisational practice. 

Curatorial Statement from Shirine Saad:

How do we come together amidst collapse and ruination? How do we listen to/alchemize the drones, the fires, the screams, the chants? Let us imagine new gospels of refusal, revolt, and love. For SONIC UNDERCOMMONS, Writer, DJ and programmer Shirine Saad had invited experimental artists to collaborate on participatory gatherings that activated communal and ancestral modes of healing.