water from an ancient well: sound and archives as monuments

Presented by Samira Farah

Hosted by Siteworks
22/10/2020
Talk #98

Image: Moor Mother in performance as part of Black Quantum Futurism in Melbourne January 2018

SAMIRA FARAH presents: ‘water from an ancient well: sound and archives as monuments’

Presented in collaboration with West Space

This lecture takes the format of a conversation between Samira Farah and Lucreccia Quintanilla who together will share texts and listen to sounds and music that have been influential and important to their practice, from hip hop to jazz to blues to bachata to reggae and more. By using these sounds & texts as a starting point, this conversation will consider shared ancestral relationships of sound making and what then the black, latino and caribbean archives offer us as possibilities in re-calibrating the notion of ‘diaspora’.

SAMIRA FARAH is a Melbourne based radio producer and arts worker, she is the co-founder of black african arts collective still nomads.

LUCRECCIA QUINTANILLA is an artist, writer, DJ and researcher at Monash University as a PhD candidate. Lucreccia Quintanilla's work is concerned with sound and collectivity.