Summoning song, dance, performance and film, two blaq artists present a body of work grappling with their personal links to Trans-Atlantic slavery. Using Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake as a touchstone, they redefine the traditional dialogues around the mythic traumatized black body. Leaving space for nuanced, difficult explorations, this show inspects the narrative of slavery through a lens tinted with queerness, pre-colonial histories, and (pre)-existing violence between Africans. Ultimately, mouth full of sea maps the methods and tools our ancestors used to survive this tragedy, celebrating the lives lived, lost, and still living within salt, water and sand.
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Summoning song, dance, performance and film, two blaq artists present a body of work grappling with their personal links to Trans-Atlantic slavery. Using Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake as a touchstone, they redefine the traditional dialogues around the mythic traumatized black body. Leaving space for nuanced, difficult explorations, this show inspects the narrative of slavery through a lens tinted with queerness, pre-colonial histories, and (pre)-existing violence between Africans. Ultimately, mouth full of sea maps the methods and tools our ancestors used to survive this tragedy, celebrating the lives lived, lost, and still living within salt, water and sand.
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