title
format
location
archive
format
location
archive
River Fire
Feild Recording
Akosombo, Ghana
The Only Return Is Sonic Archive
Feild Recording
Akosombo, Ghana
The Only Return Is Sonic Archive
Listen here.
This is what is sound like to float down the Okosombo river with the entire south side of the river on fire.
I was sitting in a small plastic raft with a bottle of wine in the center of the vein and could feel the heat.
This is what is sound like to float down the Okosombo river with the entire south side of the river on fire.
I was sitting in a small plastic raft with a bottle of wine in the center of the vein and could feel the heat.
Zion Estrada (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist researcher living on Gabrielleno/Tongva Territory. Her work flows between archival assemblage filmmaking, sonic collage production and experiential design.
Zion’s experimental collage language in film and sonic works often use layering of field recordings, found sounds and carefully curated sound clips that score a line of discourse that complicate temporality, history and meaning making. Her practice is informed by the palimpsest.
Her services include creative direction/production, narrative strategy, archival research, experiential design, host/facilitation, and sonic/visual works.
She is most interested in the non-verbal and non-human qualities of storytelling in Africa and her diaspora (specifically the Caribbean) and how sounds hold the spirits of the past and the alchemic power to magnetize communities, movement, moods, and healing. She draws on the traditions of Black Trans abolitionists care making, sex worker solidarity, doula presence practices and movement architects love of release.
Zion is co-founder and Creative Director of Black Discourse and owner of BZE Consultant LLC.
PREVIOUSLY
Director of Programs at BLD PWR; holds 10yrs as educator and curriculum developer.
CURRENTLY
Board member at Citizens of Culture
Presenting at the Ghetto Biennale in Jacmel, Haiti 2024
Participant in MIT Worlding Project Community 2023
Zion’s experimental collage language in film and sonic works often use layering of field recordings, found sounds and carefully curated sound clips that score a line of discourse that complicate temporality, history and meaning making. Her practice is informed by the palimpsest.
Her services include creative direction/production, narrative strategy, archival research, experiential design, host/facilitation, and sonic/visual works.
She is most interested in the non-verbal and non-human qualities of storytelling in Africa and her diaspora (specifically the Caribbean) and how sounds hold the spirits of the past and the alchemic power to magnetize communities, movement, moods, and healing. She draws on the traditions of Black Trans abolitionists care making, sex worker solidarity, doula presence practices and movement architects love of release.
Zion is co-founder and Creative Director of Black Discourse and owner of BZE Consultant LLC.
PREVIOUSLY
Director of Programs at BLD PWR; holds 10yrs as educator and curriculum developer.
CURRENTLY
Board member at Citizens of Culture
Presenting at the Ghetto Biennale in Jacmel, Haiti 2024
Participant in MIT Worlding Project Community 2023
Film
Sound Works
Appearances
- Challenging the Perception of Preservation in Accra’s Architecture - Press
- ‘Certain Winds From the South’ NY African Film Festival
- Rhythmic Resistance
- Precious Time
- Love Extremist
- On the Art of Building New Language with Thando Hopa
- On the Art of Building from Scratch with Sandy Alibo
- On the Art of Lagosian Filmmaking with Arie & Chuko Esiri
SEE CURRENT VISUAL DISCOURSE ︎︎︎