Events & Gatherings
Mahlet Cuff, HYPERFEMME GALACTICA
Mahlet Cuff is an emerging sound artist and DJ performing under the name, Konjo. They blend Black Diasporic genres such as House, electronic, Techno and Dancehall, using music to create space for Black Queer and Trans audiences to create their own worlds.
Their project draws on the concept of critical fabulation—an idea introduced by cultural historian Saidiya Hartman—a method of storytelling and speculative fiction that redresses historical omissions, specifically related to the histories of Trans-Atlantic slavery and the voices of enslaved women. HYPERFEMME GALACTICA uses the medium of DJing as a way to fill in the gaps and counter the erasure of Blackness from genres such as house, electronic and techno music. Through a collage of sound and video, they honour and recognize the Black originators of these genres and transform the dance floor into a space for dreaming and a site for liberation.
This performance is presented as part of the opening celebration program of the multi-year project Carried by rivers, held by lands.
Event/Exhibition meta autogenerated block.
When
November 13 at 7:00PM–8:00PM
November 13 at 7:00PM – 8:00PM
Their performance connects to the exhibition Great Plains Series: Points of Return – Spaces of Departure and will draw from music histories and dance movements of the Great Plains.