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dancing with the devil / a symphony of organs scattered over the floor
Photography by Vincenzo Fornio
dancing with the devil / a symphony of organs scattered over the floor
Photography by INK AGOP
Reform or Revolution
The colonial and capitalist systems which run on the dehumanisation of others in order to create and uphold material wealth must fall. ‘Reform or Revolution’ visualises the struggle against these systems which present as permanent through a series of clips of myself trying to push boulders with all my strength. Set on the island of Dominica - a former British colony which is currently experiencing its 21st year with Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit - the piece was developed around conversations of the stagnation of (post)colonial political systems in an environment that is notoriously in flux. Hurricanes, landslides and floods constantly reshape the natural environment - forces which demand adaptability.
Myth and absurdity become queering tools to break away from the hegemony of current systems of power. What do we do when we are faced with the Sisyphusian task, an endless repetition? My current research looks into how performance, sound and movement have the power to shift physical institutions and systems of power. When taken literally it becomes clear that any form of change won’t come quickly or be achieved alone.
Refuge isn’t something that appears from nowhere, but something that needs to be built and maintained. This refuge might not be formed within our lifetime, but our efforts will benefit future generations. ‘Reform or Revolution’ invites us to spend time with this struggle, and consider what collective power is needed in order to create a shift.
Slipping Under
Featuring a performance by Mary Feliciano, Live Sets by A/C, FAUZIA, Vivienne Griffin & Joshua Woolford and more as well as a special showreel with films by A/C, Tara Šelířová and Keiko Sei.
A special Collaboration between the LDN based creative producer A---Z and the Czech Republic curatorial platform.
This series is the development of a recent research on the affect of visual and sound in narrative. The first iteration of Always Coming Home took place at Iklectik 2023 and carried on at Matt’s Gallery in 2024, as a starting point for ambient sensorial experimentation, a threshold for furthering the ideas of immersion, speculative world and conscious listening.
Each chapter from this on-going investigation aims at introducing a live performance, a moving image and a live musical set.
Thinking of change and flux as part of speculative futures and world building as ways of expressing current socio-political issues and expanding from there to potential other paths.
In line with this proposition, language, and other forms of expression, from the bodily to sound and the non-descriptive, are given a platform to create new ways of thinking and working together: the explorations and considerations of embodied practices as political disruptions.
A reference/inspiration is the work by Pauline Oliveros with the Deep Listening method aspiring to explore expanded consciousness – “Acoustic space is where time and space merge as they are articulated by sound.”
Photography by Chloe Page
Nkisi Invites Joshua Woolford
Nkisi a.k.a Melika Ngombe Kolongo heads up a monthly late slot to rattle through dozens of tracks at breakneck speed, her mixes punctuated by African club beats and tinged by the jagged edges of gabber.
On 27th August I was invited to share my sonic world. With encouragement I shared tracks, field- and performance recordings for the full hour. Including my first ever sound pieces made for my MA graduation project with the support of Dis Fig, some of the sound pieces from my 2023-24 artist residency at Tate curated by Hannah Geddes including pieces from Tawiah, Tereza Delzz, Lie Ning and Sippin’ T.Field recordings from Dominica and especially Tevay Vaval, the ritual closing of Carnival in the Kalinago Territory on Wednesday 5th March 2025, and recordings from my recent live performance dancing with the devil / a symphony of organs scattered over the floor with Lie Ning & Sippin’ T also featured.
Throughout the set I read from Alaa Abd-El Fattah’s You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, and Angela Davis’ Freedom Is A Constant Struggle.
Photo by Ronan McKenzie
dancing with the devil / a symphony of organs scattered over the floor
Dancing with the devil / a symphony of organs scattered over the floor is a 3 hour durational performance grappling with our experiences of existing within and witnessing multiple intersecting global crises. Joshua Woolford, Sippin’ T, and Lie Ning, styled by Yodea Marquel, interact with external, natural and technological ‘organs’ which are amplified through repetition, audio loops and electronic processing. In these tangled and fractured moments, Woolford seeks alternative ways of sharing space, criticising power, and expressing oneself in spite of the extractive and dehumanising colonial and capitalist realities we find ourselves within.
Photos by Ronan McKenzie
MA HA WISU, meet me at the crossroads by Nkisi
Exploring the immaterial legacies embedded within sound, artist and musician Nkisi collaborates with transdisciplinary artist Joshua Woolford in a new work for Assembly that sees music and dance used to decode and recode ancestral traditions and spiritual technologies.
Alice Yard Residency Exhibition
With the generous support of Chris Cozier and the rest of the Alice Yard team, I was invited to take over the entire space including the ground floor gallery, upper studio space and courtyard screening area. Journeying through and into the research and public interventions I had conducted mainly across Dominica.
performance texts [ 2017 - 2024 ]
Words change if spoken, recorded or printed. I’ve kept the texts as they were used at the time rather than re-editing them. Almost all of these texts were accompanied by soundscapes, many of which (or excerpts from the performances themselves) can be found online.
between energy and event, Collaboration w/ Sippin’ T
Finding our asé, grounding ourselves within a space that craves uneven footing. A setting that has routinely thrown people like us into bureaucratic seas of uncertainty—seas with very real, tangible consequences. How do we craft a container of safety within places steeped in historical hostility? We call upon the elemental ancestors, known and unknown, those who carry luminance and benevolence. We offer them lavender, voice, and sweat, asking for their guidance, protection, and illumination as we navigate this witnessed search.
The portals are opening. The container is ready. Together, we prepare to journey through the root, heart, throat, and crown—on our terms. Will you witness us in our vulnerability? Will you remain with us in the thick of this unfolding? Will you join in this collective grounding, a process that weaves care and play into its fabric?
More questions than answers spiral through our bodies. We release them through breath, through movement—gentle, abrupt, deliberate. Through looking, seeing, writing, shouting, whispering, and responding with technical, vibrational and material bodies. We are in this together, bound by a commitment to ourselves and to all who choose to co-create this new ritual. A shared unmaking of the perfect.
Are we returning to ourselves, or are we becoming something new?
Performed during Rukus Live! at Somerset House
Photography by Anne Tetzlaff
Videography by Tanka Tanka
Wearing pieces by Rachel Freire, UY Studio and Yaz XL