einaidea, in collaboration with musician, writer and artist GAIKA, present TURBULENCE AT BLACK BAY GRENADA in the 2023 edition of Festival Sónar. Featuring Kidä and with extensive archival curation by Hannah Elsisi, this sonic, performative and audio-visual project is an epic exploration of chaos and collective reckoning that moves through rituals of social revolt and tectonic rupture across Grenada, Egypt and the African diaspora. The turbulence that these sonic rites incite spans from dancehall, triphop and noise to Arab Maqam and Saharan blues.
GAIKA creates music, audio-visual installations, texts, and media performances with a deep sense of decolonial and post-digital emancipation. His sound, in a constant state of tectonic shift, embraces dancehall, hip hop and grime alongside a range of other influences. Both the poetic and audio-visual elements of TURBULENCE AT BLACK BAY GRENADA emanate from an archive of references including fluid dynamics, volcanic and underwater agitation, and post-digital hallucination, and centre around the politics of ritual, the poetics of the Antillean Black Atlantic and Caribbean independence and revolution movements, particularly in the island of Grenada.
The project in carried out in collaboration with Haji Kareem and Núria Cintero, students of different programmes at EINA, and takes place on Saturday, 17 June 2023 at 20h, at Stage+D, Sónar Festival Barcelona.