Mavi Veloso’s queer trans language is always in flux, twisting Brazilian Portuguese and English phrases into new contortions that coat the tongue in a queer kind of gloss. Listen as she performs an essay-poem (or something like that). Supplemented by a queer abécédaire.
telluric dreaming is dreaming of, with, and in the earth. they say that to tremble, to let ourselves vibrate, is to co-regulate the body’s frequencies with the earth’s breathing. it is listening to ourselves: the body in relation.
As an introduction to the work of Parwana Amiri, we’re republishing her story, “The Olive Tree and the Old Woman,” and making it available for sale from Publication Studio Guelph.
A figure—a slippery sight like an anaconda—asks permission to enter your pores and touch your marrow, enter the life of your blood that is also the sap of the world. It is a disappearance to be in the veins of the world.
Testimonies from South Sudanese women rebuilding their lives in Zone 2 of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, and an ex-rebel soldier who fled from his past to seek peace in Uganda.
In the first episode of the series we are invited into Bidi Bidi in the West Nile region of Uganda, one of the world’s largest refugee settlements, with storyteller Richard Akim.
Working with indirect and non-human languages, telepathy, noise, spectrums of light, and material residues of vibrant matter that keep occult memories from others’ point of view, Rubiane creates visibility for the lines of forces and (almost) invisible energies acting in the gaps.
Vocal improvisers share their perspectives on the unique functions of voice within musical performances, being at once both vulnerable and powerful.
Enter the studio of cellist Jacob Cohen as he builds an electric cello from a horseshoe crab exoskeleton and brings it to life in a performance with drummer, kora player, and vocalist Ismaila Diarra.
Whether improvising their careers as black women in theatre or improvising in the artwork itself, Pat Dillon Moore and Rhoma Spencer employ creativity towards dynamic practices.
A character-based documentary series on Cuba’s African spiritual heritage, with a focus on the water deity Yemoja (“Yemaya” in Cuba).
How do musicians, composers, and audiences use graphic scores to re-imagine their roles?