english version, sound mix: Lamin Fofana, featuring Drexciya’s “Cascading Celestial Giants”, Jeff Mills’ “Gravitational Lensing”

german version

DREXCIYA – Detroit Techno, Aquanauten und die Politik des Dancefloors, Künstlerhaus Dortmund | 27. Oktober 2017, 19:00
performative lecture with DJ-Set. Mit: DJ Dash, knowbotiq/Yvonne Wilhelm, Lamin Fofana & Zen Jefferson (photo: Anneke Dunkhase)

knowbotiQ: «Drexciya or Becoming Transparent, Translucent, Transmaterial», Performative Lecture,
«I hate water, let me go, put me down. You’re all wet» (parliament)
Thursday, 4. May 2017 / 20:00 | DJ Lecture & DJ Set & Performance, salon bastarde & oor saloon present: soundmythen vol.1: afrodrexciya, Zurich Longstreet</p>

The series “Soundmythen” engages in political sound and dance spaces. Starting point: Sound and myth of the legendary Detroit techno duo Drexciya. In releases from 1992 to 2002, Gerald Donald and James Marcel Stinson told of a hidden species: Drexciyans – underwater creatures, equipped with party-driving, anti-racist sound wave technologies, born from the foetuses of their mothers thrown overboard in the transatlantic slave trade…
AfroDrexciya “opens the series of” Soundmythen “as a kaleidoscope: montages of music link migration and a sonographic self-draft; South Africa directs the view from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean; and queer-feminist perspectives of color shift the militarism of the drexciyan parallel world: Afro-Swiss agency in between migration underground and the culture of domination.