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Que rápido el tiempo. Este viernes 27 de marzo a las 19.00 h en @nadienuncanadano y en el último día de La Flor Furtiva 2, tendrá lugar un programa público con tres performances a cargo de Enrico Dau Yang Wey, Alec Mateo y Nikita Sena con Erea Fernández. Todas personas a las que quiero mucho, de las que no paro de aprender y con las que en los últimos años he trabajado en distintas configuraciones y mantengo una correspondencia continua alrededor de la voz y su relación con el paisaje. Con Alec comparto en Amsterdam un espacio al que llamamos @voiceaslandscape y ha sido el desdé ese contexto que hemos mantenido juntxs estos diálogos. La intención del viernes es hacer un acto de encendido colectivo de la exposición tan oscura y cerrarla abriendola hacía otras voces. Bea nos envió compango y fabes de Asturías por lo que después de las performances cenaremos fabada Asturiana. @dede.koko @erea______ @e.dy.w @fertilefields @un_mateo_ Estoy en Madrid desde hoy (martes) si alguien quiere visitar conmigo la exposición antes de que cierre me puede escribir e iré feliz. La Flor Furtiva 2 es una colaboración con Jonás de Murias, el diseño y programación de iluminación lo ha hecho Jorge Nieto, Ramón Mateos nos ha acompañado artísticamente y lo hemos conseguido montar y más cosas gracias a Lola Sánchez. Imprenta Sandelfin diseñó e imprimió los regalos precious para que nos llevemos todes. Gracias a todxs lxs amigxs que nos han ayudado de tantas maneras. @jonasdemurias @jorge_nieto__ @lola.solalola @ramonmat @imprenta_sandelfin

With only two weeks left to see Rythm Mastr: The Chronicles, we’re excited to present the final and closing event. Taking inspiration from the exhibition, and Kerry James Marshall’s powerful storytelling, the fantastic illustrator @stellaamurphy will be leading a workshop on how to create bold narratives through characterisation and world building. The workshop is free and will take place from 12-2pm on Saturday 13th December at The Tabernacle, Notting Hill, W11 2AY. Spaces are limited so please make sure to RSVP. Further information through link in bio.

𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙗𝙧𝙚 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙. With Imani Mason Jordan & Nikita Sena and Third Gut (Raoni/Muzho Saleh & Alec Mateo). 28 November at 20:00 | doors open 19:30 | language: English | livestream available | tickets from €10, link in bio Timbre knows what happened. It does. Voices are containers and content at the same time. Voice is ship and load. This evening, the second in 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙚’s new focus on song, is dedicated to exploring the voice as an instrument through two artistic collaborations that propose diverse approaches to this. Voice is an instrument made of flesh and air. One that is sentient, that remembers, that is haunted. A glass of water now can clear a voice but a voice is ultimately an aftermath—of that body’s life and others that preceded it. It is also a resource we have, one that moves through different emotional spectrums and layers of knowledge. Both proposals of the evening explore meaning and poetics of voicings beyond language. 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 (@homopathic ) & 𝙉𝙞𝙠𝙞𝙩𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙖 (@dede.koko ) will be visiting from Italy and the UK, respectively. Together they have been exploring the potentials of sound matter found in text and language beyond its literality. In their procedures they incorporate repetition, improvisation and archive to distort preconceived forms of meanings but also produce new ones that resignify established structures of sense. This evening will be the first public offering of 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙙 𝙂𝙪𝙩. Third Gut is where 𝙍𝙖𝙤𝙣𝙞/𝙈𝙪𝙯𝙝𝙤 𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙝’s (@rawany_3ishq ) and 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙘 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙤’s (@un_mateo_ ) practices meet. A space for them to explore transformative sounding, built on noise, vocality, performance and sacred mourning traditions. Raoni, drawing from the Shia mourning tradition, works with the wail as an embodied expression of grief, that carries in it emancipatory potentials and political urgencies, and Alec works with sound as a way to negotiate a fugitive relationship to memory, world, and subject building. The evening is hosted by 𝙇𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙯𝙤 𝙂𝙖𝙧𝙘í𝙖-𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 (@lorenzombiee , @voiceaslandscape ). Visual by @alix.chauvet .

On Tuesday 28th October, @pesoneto_ and @mark__dear will be leading a comic book workshop for Rythm Mastr: The Chronicles, currently on view at The Tabernacle. Taking inspiration from the exhibition and the world-building of Kerry James Marshall’s iconic comic project, this workshop will introduce participants to the process of comic creation– from narrative building to character development. You’ll learn about Gonçalo and Mark’s art practices and how they relate to comics and the wider of world of drawing. They’ll also guide participants through creating their own comic strips. The workshop is free and is from 6-8pm at The Tabernacle. Spaces are limited so please make sure to RSVP. Further information through link in bio.

Thank you to everyone who came down to the opening of Rythm Mastr: The Chronicles, the first show in the UK dedicated to Kerry James Marshall’s comic project. Special thanks to @oooretha and @_sippin_t for both grounding and animating the space so beautifully, and to @ma.kevelli for your help documenting the evening! And of course big thanks to @markgodfrey1973 @lovesupremeprojects @davidzwirner for making the show possible! More events coming up, including a comic drawing workshop with @pesoneto_ and @mark__dear , to be announced shortly.

‘Rythm Mastr: The Chronicles’, opens at @tabernaclew11 this Wednesday 17th (7-10pm), and will be the first UK exhibition dedicated to Kerry James Marshall’s comic series. Since 1999, Rythm Mastr has been a long-running side project that centres Black superheroes and plays with the comic form. It has been surreal to co-curate this show alongside @markgodfrey1973 (thank you for your trust!), while also being on the curatorial team delivering Kerry’s major survey at @royalacademyarts .Thank you to everyone who has helped to make this possible, including @lovesupremeprojects , @tabernaclew11 , @davidzwirner , Studio Chip, and, of course, Kerry himself. Come through on Wednesday and celebrate with us! Performance on the night by my favourite griot @oooretha , and the mage @_sippin_t on decks. Poster by the genius @kevinbichaud

We are so excited to launch ✨ The Epic and the Everyday: Kerry James Marshall’s Black Narratives ✨, a brand-new online course led by two of the curators of the Royal Academy’s upcoming blockbuster exhibition Kerry James Marshall: The Histories. Starting 8 September, this three-part series with Nikita Sena Quarshie (@dede.koko ) and Mark Godfrey (@markgodfrey1973 ) will open up @kerryjamesmarshall_ visionary practice — showing how he reimagines the canon of Western art through the lens of Black life. We’ll look at his bold approach to history painting, his use of blackness as both colour and philosophy, and his ability to move between the monumental and the everyday with a language that feels utterly his own. Expect thoughtful conversations, expansive ideas and space to reflect on why Marshall remains one of the most influential artists of our time. Sessions run live on Mondays, with all recordings available for twelve months — so you can revisit at your own pace. Dates: Monday 8 September Monday 22 September Monday 29 September Time: 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm (BST) Format: Online via Zoom Sign up today and use code D4GRR9W for FREE access 💫 [link in @blackblossoms.online bio]

📣 📣 📣 Very excited to announce ‘Rythm Mastr: The Chronicles’ at The Tabernacle in Notting Hill, opening on 17 September . This exhibition brings together many different works in Kerry James Marshall’s long-running and expansive Rythm Mastr comics project. Some are 25 years old and others are new and haven’t been seen! It’s free to visit and runs to mid-December. Curated by Nikita Sena Quarshie and Mark Godfrey. Supported by @lovesupremeprojects More details in the press release - slides 3-7. Thanks to @kevinbichaud for the poster design. ‘Rythm Mastr: The Chronicles’ runs alongside the major survey show ‘Kerry James Marshall: The Histories’ @royalacademyarts . Please come to see both shows! @dede.koko @lovesupremeprojects @tabernaclew11

Read the rest of @dede.koko 's text in Errant Journal's latest issue 'Embodying Resistance.' For purchase, see link in Linktr.ee. . #ErrantJournal #resistance #resistancefrombelow #body #bodies #muscle #embodied #freepalestine #palestine #independentpublishing #resilience #decolonization #Fanon #FranzFanon #protest @readingvigilpalestine

Only three weeks left to experience @fireleibaez first solo show at @southlondongallery ! Thank you so much to everyone who came to the opening and has passed through since. As well as all the facilitators and participants of the public programmes. After the frenzy of the past months, it still feels surreal to have co-curated this exhibition, along with all the fellows on the @new_curators programme. We have so many people to shout out for their support and hard work, but for the moment thank you so much again @fireleibaez and the rest of your team for your trust in us.

I’m reading Nuar Alsadir’s “Animal Joy”, somewhat desperately (!!!), for the second time this year. Reflecting on laughter as: defence against tragedy / self possession / a “psychological break from captivity” / a reminder “that you are alive”

two weeks ago @ma.kevelli and i held our first workshop together, “to hold and to be held”, at @tate . i’m still thinking through what it means to have a bodily/sensual relationship with archives, and have our individual experiences be in conversation with what we might start to see as collective memories. scroll through for rehearsals of third spaces and cute mak & nik content. in a period where we were both ill and burnt out there’s really no one else i could or would have wanted to do this with. there’s nothing like laughter to weather that persistent shadow of existential dread 🤡