Marasa
Our main aim is to provide a space for artists and researchers whose work addresses considerations including, issues of power imbalance, the colonial fracture within systems of representation in art and culture, intersectionality, strategies of resistance, appropriation, reappropriation, retribution, utopias and parallel worlds.
Our content includes music sets made to a creative brief, interviews with artists interspersed with original work and radiophonic performances. Among these exists the audio collage, as a storytelling methodology that incorporates theory, affective sound effects, poetry and music as a means of communicating across many points of access. We commission new work, while also participating ourselves in the development of a creative sound storytelling methodology which tackles critical issues of power and resistance.
Evolving discourses, research and theory should not reproduce hierarchical imbalance or privilege. We hope that by working through and with radio and sound collage, to explore issues traditionally associated with written research, we can contribute to expanding the perimeters of the creation of knowledge.
We aim to create a listening space which will be both physical and immaterial, and as such, in an art and culture context, seeks to expand the exhibition space to its limits.
So far, we have worked and collaborated with Kelman Duran, Rosa Johan Uddoh, Tabita Rezaire and Moesha13.
2019-2021: project run by Sandra Jean Pierre & Jessica Saxby
2021 - present: project run by Sandra Jean Pierre.