artists
Adee Roberson
Adee Roberson (b.1981, West Palm Beach, Florida) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is a meditation on symbolism and texture. Synthesizing performance and installation, her work melds vibration and technicolor visions through paintings, video, and melodic compositions. These works offer a refracted timeline of black diasporic movement, weaving sonic and familial archives, with landscape, rhythm, and spirit.
She has exhibited and performed at numerous venues including, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Antenna Gallery, Project Row Houses, Palm Springs Art Museum, Human Resources , Charlie James Gallery, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, MOCA Los Angeles, and Art Gallery of Ontario. Adee has been an Artist-In-Residence at Echo Park Film Center, Treehouse Lagos, and ACRE. She is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Cutting Edge Grant and the 2021 Los Angeles Artadia Award. She is based in Los Angeles, California.
AJ McClennon
Born and raised in “DC proper,” A.J. is passionate about teaching and the art of words & making, with the goal that all the memories and histories that are said to have “too many Black people,” are told and retold again. As a means to uphold these stories A.J. creates writings, performances, installations, objects, sounds, and visuals. These creations often revolve around an interest in water and aquatic life, escapism, Blackness, science, grief, US history, and the global future.
Alliah George
“Audible Rising” offers an alternative portrayal of the scientific evidence of Climate Change. Using Pure Data, the piece transforms Global Carbon Dioxide Emission, Global Surface Temperature and Global; Sea Level Data from the year 1880 to 2016 into auditory information. The audiovisual piece draws attention to the past stability and present urgent state of our Earth through a multitude of senses. Scientific data and charts are credited to NASA/GISS, NOA and CSIRO.
jamilah malika abu-bakare
jamilah malika abu-bakare (SAIC, MFA '19) is an artist/writer thinking through refusal, repetition, dedication and intimacy. this might look like sound art, video essay, text off page or installation. whatever the form, the work centres Black women with care. she centers listening over looking towards fugitivity, to reject the burden of representation and make the audience subject. her work has played or shown from Berlin to LA and across Canada including Contemporary Field Gallery (Vancouver,) Circuit Gallery (Toronto) and Artscape (Peterborough). her writing most recently appeared in Canadian Art magazine. jamilahmalikaabubakare.ca
Jessica Karuhanga
Jessica Karuhanga is a first-generation Canadian artist of British-Ugandan heritage whose work addresses cultural politics of identity and Black diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, writing, drawing and performances. Through her practice she explores individual and collective concerns of Black subjectivity. Karuhanga has presented her work at SummerWorks (Toronto, 2020), The Bentway (Toronto, 2019), Nuit Blanche (Toronto, 2018), and Goldsmiths University (London, UK, 2017). Karuhanga's writing has been published by C Magazine, BlackFlash, Susan Hobbs Gallery and Fonderie Darling. She has been featured in AGO's Artist Spotlight, i-D, DAZED, Visual Aids, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, Globe and Mail and Canadian Art.
Kim Ninkuru
Kim Ninkuru is a multimedia artist born in Bujumbura, Burundi. In Canada since 2009, she has been living and working in Montreal and Toronto. Using video and sound performance, story-telling and installation work, she creates pieces that give her the chance to explore and express rage, love, desire, beauty, or pain in relation to her own body, mind and soul. Although her art is very personal, she is committed to speaking out about the liberation of black women and femmes everywhere. Her work heavily questions our preconceived notions of gender, race, sexuality and class. It is grounded in the firm belief that blackness is past, present and future at any given moment.
RUTMEAT
RUTMEAT is a dinjii zhuh sound artist who is grateful to get to share their work with AURAL ALTERITIES.
Soledad Fatima Muñoz
Soledad Fatima Muñoz is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural worker and researcher born in her family's exile in Canada and raised in Rancagua, Chile. Through her investigation of the materiality of sound and her understanding of the woven structure as the continuation of our social gesture, her practice seeks to fabricate new archives of resistance. Her relationship with music began at an early age in Rancagua, where she studied piano and was part of several bands and vocal ensembles. This interest grew once he arrived in Canada, where he began his interest in modular synthesis, instrument building and the creation of installations that explore the physicality of sound.
In 2014 she founded Genero, a record label that focuses on distributing the work of women and non-binary artists in sound. Subsequently, in 2017, she co-founded CURRENT "Feminist Electronic Art Symposium", a multidisciplinary and intersectional electronic art and music symposium. Her latest collaborative audiovisual project titled "La Parte de Atrás de la Arpillera'' features a collection of interviews with Chilean textile workers whose narratives fabricate the country's history of resistance.