experimental sound studio
In Huele de Noche, ESS Curatorial Fellow Carolina Vélez Muñiz brought together the evocative sounds of Jada-Amina and with visual direction from kelechi agwuncha. Jada-Amina's performance sought "infinity, using hymns as a guiding force," / 2021
role: co-director
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Jada-Amina (b. 1995) is a South Side Chicago born and based, Black Indigenous American interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker. For Jada-Amina, remembering is the ancestral technology tethering cosmic currents and the ravines of our past. Their sound, video and other collage work exalts the materiality of fragmentation. Transposing the analog and sampling cultural data from both their personal archive and the public domain, they contemplate the potential of the extended portrait as a portal in which spirits transpose the static of the photograph. The speculative and the surreal are deployed to encode the immateriality of memory. Gospel is the promise of a world beyond, tendering alternative melody to the melancholy of postcolonial worlds. Using the hymn as a compass, Jada-Amina hums through the hush harbor, forging new ways of being.