FREQUENCIES OF BLACKNESS — we’ll listen and learn, screen and spin, talk and reflect. me, Tina Campt, Alexander Weheliye and Zara Julius. happens tomorrow — join us. ✨🖤✨ link in bio ✨🖤✨ —— What does frequency offer us as a framework for understanding black life? What insights does it provide for responding to anti-blackness? And how might it help us to see, hear, and feel the power of black life’s irrepressible drive toward creating a different kind of futurity? At a moment of transnational racial reckoning, this listening session explores black frequency as a site of possibility. It engages black frequency in multiple forms: as a sonic space the ranges from silence to deafening, dissonant noise; as a register of rapture and spirituality; as a temporal feedback loop of memory, repetition, and renewal; as a dynamic relation of call and response or chorus and verse; as a haptic and kinetic space of contact and connection across the African continent and its various diasporas. Frequencies of Blackness is an invitation to explore black frequency through dialogue on sight, sound, memory, movement, and connection. - Jenn, Tina, Zara & Alex The conveners of the session, Tina Campt, Zara Julius, Jenn Nkiru and Alexander Weheliye, have assembled a collection of sonic and haptic, written and visual texts that enact black frequency in a multitude of ways. As of Monday 16 November, these materials are now available at: www.thesojournerproject.org 
 —— The Sojourner Project is a mobile Black Studies academy initiated by the Practicing Refusal Collective, an international Black feminist forum of artists and scholars dedicated to initiating dialogues on blackness, anti-black violence and black futurity in the twenty-first century. The Sojourner Project- South Africa will be activated online through a series of workshops, classes and art interventions. Visit www.viad.co.za for more information on The Sojourner Project and the Practicing Refusal Collective. #thesojournerproject #frequenciesofblackness