kelechi agwuncha


01    video art
        tether
        The Star
        Blacktronika: Sound for Humanity
        double beam
        wham pass intact

02    performance
        amplifies it, doubles, and trebles it
        lovetempo
        chicago architectural biennial
        experimental sound studio
        pitchfork music festival
        tether

03    commercial
        santa fe opera
        museum of international folk art
        santa fe art institute
        vans

04   about



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.