Zadie Xa in conversation with Tamar Clarke-Brown

Writer, artist and curator Tamar Clarke-Brown joins artist Zadie Xa in conversation ahead of the online showcase Moon Poetics 4 Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers, Xa’s new sound work for ASSEMBLY 2020.

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Dates	Wed 23 Sep 2020
Times	From 18.00
Space	Online

Opening this year’s series, join the pair live for a discussion touching on the processes and themes behind the commission as they introduce Xa's six-part narrative composition, an audio piece that tells the story of animal kinship as a survival strategy to save an ailing planet.

Loosely based on the Korean shamanic story of Princess Bari, Moon Poetics 4 Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers takes the audience on a guided journey through parallel dimensions, led by a host of creatures. Produced in collaboration with immersive sound agency Call & Response, the new work furthers Xa’s ongoing engagement with the powerful complexities of interspecies communication, matriarchal social structures and ancestral homelands.

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Assembly 2020's artist residency programme Sonic Terrains is supported by Jerwood Arts' Development Programme Fund.

Media partner: The Wire

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