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Virgil Abloh Broke My Mind
Sound Work
co-director
Black Discourse & Nordstrom
summer 2022
produced by Shy Clart
Sound Work
co-director
Black Discourse & Nordstrom
summer 2022
produced by Shy Clart
Listen here.
In August we held an intimate conversation with @virgilabloh’s friends and collaborators @murderbravado + @atibaphoto hosted by @Jiandeleon in @nordstrom’s flagship NY store. The night welcomed guests to celebrate the genius of V.
BLACK DISCOURSE has created a sonic artifact to honor V’s legacy featuring original sound design by UK Producer and DJ @shyclart. The work captures Bravado, Jefferson and DeLeon’s tender reflections, along with additional contributions by long time friends and colleagues @prettyvacantcyde, @bafic @ashlauryn.
VIRGIL ABLOH BROKE MY MIND Sonic Artifact bridges the overground with the underground; weaving in members of the public - demonstrating V’s lasting legacy and the imprint he has left on us all.
You can find the VIRGIL ABLOH BROKE MY MIND SONIC track and full panel discussion on the @blackdiscourse.co website.
We miss you 🕊️
Credits:
co-production by Koumbah Semega-Janneh
In August we held an intimate conversation with @virgilabloh’s friends and collaborators @murderbravado + @atibaphoto hosted by @Jiandeleon in @nordstrom’s flagship NY store. The night welcomed guests to celebrate the genius of V.
BLACK DISCOURSE has created a sonic artifact to honor V’s legacy featuring original sound design by UK Producer and DJ @shyclart. The work captures Bravado, Jefferson and DeLeon’s tender reflections, along with additional contributions by long time friends and colleagues @prettyvacantcyde, @bafic @ashlauryn.
VIRGIL ABLOH BROKE MY MIND Sonic Artifact bridges the overground with the underground; weaving in members of the public - demonstrating V’s lasting legacy and the imprint he has left on us all.
You can find the VIRGIL ABLOH BROKE MY MIND SONIC track and full panel discussion on the @blackdiscourse.co website.
We miss you 🕊️
Credits:
co-production by Koumbah Semega-Janneh
Zion Estrada (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist researcher living on Gabrielleno/Tongva/Chumash Land. Her work flows between archival assemblage filmmaking, sonic collage production and experiential design centering human and more-than-human (re)connection.
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 and Pauline Olivero’s Deep Listening.
She is most interested in the non-verbal and more-than-human qualities of storytelling from the African 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 from the traditions of Black Trans abolitionists care making, sex worker solidarity, doula presence practices and movement architects love of release.
Zion is currently is practicing in emergent transformative justice work with Abolition Dream lab practicing in radical learning communities how to prepare, account, release and re-story the harms we have caused, the roots the harms have in culture and systemic violence while centering care, healing and rest.
Zion is the Creative Director of Black Discourse, co-founder of Wild Grass Design + Research Lab and owner of BZE Consultant LLC. She holds a M.A. Ed focused in participatory research and linquistics.
PREVIOUSLY
Director of Programs at BLD PWR; holds 10yrs as educator and curriculum developer.
CURRENTLY
Board member at Citizens of Culture
Exhibitor 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 and Pauline Olivero’s Deep Listening.
She is most interested in the non-verbal and more-than-human qualities of storytelling from the African 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 from the traditions of Black Trans abolitionists care making, sex worker solidarity, doula presence practices and movement architects love of release.
Zion is currently is practicing in emergent transformative justice work with Abolition Dream lab practicing in radical learning communities how to prepare, account, release and re-story the harms we have caused, the roots the harms have in culture and systemic violence while centering care, healing and rest.
Zion is the Creative Director of Black Discourse, co-founder of Wild Grass Design + Research Lab and owner of BZE Consultant LLC. She holds a M.A. Ed focused in participatory research and linquistics.
PREVIOUSLY
Director of Programs at BLD PWR; holds 10yrs as educator and curriculum developer.
CURRENTLY
Board member at Citizens of Culture
Exhibitor at the Ghetto Biennale in Jacmel, Haiti 2024
Participant in MIT Worlding Project Community 2023
Film
Sound Works
Appearances
- Texte Zur Kunst Film Review Issue No.133/March 2024 “Restitution”
- Quantum Listening: Sound as Form/Practice
- Black Reconstruction Collective discusses UNMONUMENT CHICAGO:After Work, the group’s contribution to the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial
- 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 ︎︎︎