Continuing a beautiful collaboration initiated by sonia louise davis around her exhibition “to reverberate tenderly”, I will be speaking alongside sonia and Sugar Vendil at an interactive event as part of Creative Time’s ‘Sonic Commons’ at their headquarters.

‘SOUNDING TOGETHER TOWARDS the UNKNOWN”

May 1st, 2025, 6pm-8pm, FREE

CTHQ: 59 E 4th St, Floor 7, New York, NY 10003

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sounding-together-towards-the-unknown-tickets-1301444408259

FROM WEBSITE: What sounds emerge from a visual gesture, from a mark made with intention? Join artists and musicians sonia louise davis, Rena Anakwe, and Sugar Vendil for a participatory conversation accompanied by hands-on instrument drawing and making. Throughout the evening, the artists will reflect on their collaboration through performances at the Queens Museum last year that activated davis’ sounders, a set of custom steel instruments, through improvisation. As a visual artist, writer, and performer, sonia louise davis’ working ethos is invested in improvisation as a form of research that uses the body as a guide. The artist’s philosophy is characterized by improvisation not only as it relates to experimental music, but as a daily exercise of care, resilience, radical softness, and self-determination in the face of systemic injustices. Materials will be provided for participants to make their own imagined instruments, or drawings for future sound-making, and the gathering will culminate in a collective jam session.

https://hq.creativetime.org/calendar/an-evening-with-sonia-louise-davis/