"It was, from the first moment, a magical world; a world with silvery-black mountains that, when filled with light, became translucent, revealing the presence of a single person in each; a body moving in its own way. These Black bodies were beyond gender, and everything and everyone was connected, inter-communicating silently like a mycelial fungal system. Small fragment-like lights shone in the spines of those mountains and sometimes they looked like star constellations in the darkened space."
"Once, a figure squatted close to a wall, their back turned, and there was strumming. There was a shimmering, and a glimmering, of light projected on walls, and there were moments when someone sat and haunted the space with song. And there were other sounds - a shrieking, a humming, a long whimpering, music from silver sound equipment. A statuesque figure stood there sometimes, covered in a shroud, or played unshrouded, a between-worlds DJ."
An open-ended performance titled tbd: to be diasporic un determined embraced unintelligibility to allow living and working on its own terms. The staging created a liminal landscape of silvery-black translucent mountains, each containing a single moving Black body beyond gender. Performers communicated silently, forming a mycelial network of interconnection. Light and small fragment-like constellations shimmered across walls while song, shrieks, humming, and strumming emerged from silver sound equipment. A statuesque, shrouded or unshrouded figure acted as a between-worlds DJ. The aesthetic emphasized self-transformation, communal belonging, and Black possibility.
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