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ANANSI Revolutionary Collective
2022︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
INTERNATIONAL
The ANANSI Revolutionary Collective (ARC000) is a pan-African arts collective that stewards a commons of material resources, infrastructure, people-power, and knowledge. The collective is developing the ANANSI philosophy, which is one of Black holistic distribution, seeking to disrupt mass centralization across various disciplines. The collective continually experiments with an emergent collection of collaborative praxis, including collective budgeting, consensus-based decision making, rotational responsibility, reparational funding, and collective mythmaking. We are building a governance model structured around a participatory protocol, which will include guidelines around membership, voting, praxis and project management, and altering the protocol.
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DisCO.coop
2022
BALTIMORE
AMSTERDAM
SPAIN
NAIROBI
DisCO.coop is a non-profit cooperative that produces models for ethical collaborative productive labor in the digital era. They incubate and promote practices that integrate care-based cultural practices, guided learning journeys, and DLT-based technological tools.
They are the creators and stewards of the DisCO (Distributed Cooperative Organisation) philosophy, an organisational model for cooperative groups that combines ideas and practices from cooperativism, the commons, P2P and feminist economics.
During my time with DisCO.coop, I co-designed and facilitated workshops in Baltimore, Amsterdam, and Cape Town; provided my expertise on techno-politics and digital tools both internally and in consideration for the pending Pink Paper; connected the organization with my network of ethical technologists and changemakers; and offered continual highly considered feedback on the outward facing and inwardly practiced philosophy and praxis.
During my time with DisCO.coop, I co-designed and facilitated workshops in Baltimore, Amsterdam, and Cape Town; provided my expertise on techno-politics and digital tools both internally and in consideration for the pending Pink Paper; connected the organization with my network of ethical technologists and changemakers; and offered continual highly considered feedback on the outward facing and inwardly practiced philosophy and praxis.
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Currents.fm
2020-2022
INTERNATIONAL
Currents.fm is an online music streaming platform designed to create sustainable financial support for musicians and collectives. Rather than paying into the platform, fans subscribe or pay one-off “tips” to artists directly. In addition to the namesake music platform, Currents also developed COMMON, a digital club venue that enabled viewers to tip and subscribe to artists during their performances, and to discover new music organically by navigating the site much like one would a festival grounds.
As one of the first employees of the company, I played a critical role in its founding, and saw my job shapeshifting to fit the needs of our artists. My primary focus was on creating a real, caring community. I developed and maintained various initiatives to support and connect artists, including: hosting regular "town hall" events to provide a safe environment for artists to connect with each other on a personal level, establishing and maintaining an asynchronous chat server for ongoing conversations between artists, and experimenting with scheduled and adhoc community events. I also conducted research and experimentation with decentralized and distributed networks, as well as virtual, physical, and hybrid artist communities. From a more creative stand point, I regularly produced, curated, and assisted with our digital festivals including A Moment In Between and 黑美.
As one of the first employees of the company, I played a critical role in its founding, and saw my job shapeshifting to fit the needs of our artists. My primary focus was on creating a real, caring community. I developed and maintained various initiatives to support and connect artists, including: hosting regular "town hall" events to provide a safe environment for artists to connect with each other on a personal level, establishing and maintaining an asynchronous chat server for ongoing conversations between artists, and experimenting with scheduled and adhoc community events. I also conducted research and experimentation with decentralized and distributed networks, as well as virtual, physical, and hybrid artist communities. From a more creative stand point, I regularly produced, curated, and assisted with our digital festivals including A Moment In Between and 黑美.
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Ansible Realm Connector
2024
ACRA
Ansible Realm Connector was a musical and poetic tele-performance that was produced with the ANANSI Revolutionary Collective as a part of the 2024 Wave Farm Transmission Arts residency. The project was awarded the Rising Tide Award.
The project was an innovative live docu-fictional radio play and Arkestral tele-performance that unfolded the narrative of the (fictional) inter-dimensional ansible, I.D.A., and the genesis of the (real) ANANSI Revolutionary Collective. Envisioned as a global collaboration, musicians, sound artists, and writers synchronized from diverse locations using low-latency audio transfer technology. This interdisciplinary telematic performance transcended physical distances, creating a shared experience for a global audience. SUNJIR0 (Kadallah) anchored the project on-site at Wave Farm while connected with artists in Nairobi, Kenya and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In addition to the live tele-performance, SUNJIR0 (Kadallah) also did a live radio broadcast with WGXC.
The project was an innovative live docu-fictional radio play and Arkestral tele-performance that unfolded the narrative of the (fictional) inter-dimensional ansible, I.D.A., and the genesis of the (real) ANANSI Revolutionary Collective. Envisioned as a global collaboration, musicians, sound artists, and writers synchronized from diverse locations using low-latency audio transfer technology. This interdisciplinary telematic performance transcended physical distances, creating a shared experience for a global audience. SUNJIR0 (Kadallah) anchored the project on-site at Wave Farm while connected with artists in Nairobi, Kenya and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In addition to the live tele-performance, SUNJIR0 (Kadallah) also did a live radio broadcast with WGXC.
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Soil Factory
2024
ITHACA
Kadallah completed a residency with the Soil Factory in Ithaca, NY. During their time there, they stayed at the Soil Factory and participated in and hosted events within the space, including a presentation and discussion around virtual community focused on their work with the ANANSI Revolutionary Collective. In addition to their enagagement with Soil Factory, they gave one lecture and taught one workshop at Cornell University for the Environment and Sustainability Colloquium course.
While there, Kadallah created a number of cyanotype prints and is currently in the process of developing a living installation in collaboration with the Soil Factory community.
While there, Kadallah created a number of cyanotype prints and is currently in the process of developing a living installation in collaboration with the Soil Factory community.