Mad Vibrations: A Humming Ritual for Untrustworthy Narrators by Amal Alhaag and Maria Guggenbichler

Mad Vibrations: A Humming Ritual for Untrustworthy Narrators by Amal Alhaag and Maria Guggenbichler
District, Berlin (Germany), October 20, 2018. Click to access opening and closing meditations.

With an opening and ending meditation, conceived by Negarra A. Kudumu Mad Vibrations: A Humming Ritual for Untrustworthy Narrators side-steps the cruelty of colonial modernity, and focuses on the radical, renegade voices of decolonial struggles who demand different realities for themselves through various forms of self-care and exchanges via diasporic and pan-african networks, connections, echoes and re-sonances. These decolonial vibrations and voices found their waves and ways while experiencing prohibition and criminalization. By using improvised or coded language, dance, music or non-verbal communication, which was often read as inaudible, made from scratch, unreliable, inconsistent, mad and incomprehensible forms of exchanges between enslaved and colonial subjects people managed to move below the radar of the systems of slavery and colonialism.

Image: Amal Alhaag & Maria Guggenbichler, Mad Vibrations: A Humming Ritual for Untrustworthy Narrators, 2018, Photo: Kim Bode