Invernomuto & Jim C. Nedd

Invernomuto & Jim C. Nedd presented an immersive audio-visual installation titled GRITO – Las Brisas de Febrero (2021) at Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building. Based on music from the Northern region of Colombia, the work centres specifically on the village of Palenque which was the first free African town in the Americas, established in the 17th century by people escaping enslavement. Through exploring Colombian pico culture – where customised sound systems or ‘picos’ go head-to-head playing vintage AfroColombian records at street parties – the piece considers music as a form of knowledge, while tracing the history of picos as points of contact between West Africa and South America during the transatlantic slave trade.  Concerned with how our bodies register experience, the editing pattern of the film reflects patterns of hair braiding which were developed by slaves to transmit secret messages as tools of resistance. A layer of sound and history is added by two horn speakers that recite stories connected to the areas of both Palenque and Barranquilla.

Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, with support from the Italian Cultural Institute in London, Q-INTERNATIONAL, Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma, Fondazione Pietro e Alberto Rossini and Pinksummer, Genova

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