Our Silences Will Not Protect Us

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Our Silences Will Not Protect Us takes its inspiration from the title of a well-known book by Audre Lorde. Here, it is an invitation to act, from the point of view of sound, and to do so with full awareness of one’s own position. For sound artist Rokia Bamba, musical repertories, fragments of sound and vocal recordings are elements used to compose acoustic universes, unexpected and imaginary, counter-hegemonic and non-Eurocentric.

These diasporic narrations in sound incorporate field recordings and materials coming from a range of Afro-American music including rap, house and afrobeat. In dialogue with Federico de Felice – dj, music journalist and co-founder of Atlantico Festival – Bamba presents her informal archiving with a selection of listening sessions from which minority and counter-hegemonic sound worlds emerge. in collaboration with Atlantico Festival - TPO | Ri-farci Spazio