Hear my story
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Narration: You’re going to want to wear headphones for this.
My name is Axel Kacoutié I’m known by many titles.
Studio manager,
Engineer,
Producer,
Exec,
Sound Designer,
Audio Artist,
Poet.
But you find me here today, in my true disguise.
Axel: Magician.
Phoebe Boswell: When I say safe, I don’t mean without risk…
Narration: You felt me in spaces dedicated to the arts and contemplation.
Harold Offeh: I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, I’m there. I’m here, I’m there…
Amy Sherald: I don’t want it to be in our imagination I want it to become a reality…
Harold Offeh: …It seems kind of simple, but it’s in the context of absence.
Narration: Curated works…
Josie Long: This is Short Cuts, brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound…
Chenjerai Kumanyika: More than 100 years before Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama…
Narration: You’ve heard me in our histories…
Chenjerai Kumanyika: …Elizabeth Jennings Graham clings to the window ledge, and so the conductor calls for backup from the police.
[In French]: Here was the village of Palaka in Northern Côte d’Ivoire… …troops came.
They surrounded the village.
They fired,
they burned,
they killed…
Irina: You could call it a nightmare, because I woke up so upset because Romanian language was a character in my dream…
Raymond Antrobus: I have friends who don’t know any sign who I speak with when I dream about them, during times I’m signing with them.
Dr Alex Wilson: Queering is transforming poison into medicine.
Narration: We’ve dreamed…
Jill: it would be so right to have it somewhere where people can touch the table he wrote on, touch the typewriter, to see the artwork he had all around him, to listen to the music…
C.A: …anything that can suspend our disbelief of anything. Or it could be something as simple as feeling the world around you as alive and a part of you.
(Are you okay?)
Bui: I’m here to practice being a human being. That’s the goal. It’s like, did I survive being a human being today? Yes. Excellent. Ten points. Keep it –
(GET ON THE FLOOR!)
Narration: And you found me in your worst nightmares.
(Are you okay?)
Cleopatra Tatabele: The creation of whiteness is to be disconnected from where you’re from.
Like, that’s the whole point,
that you’re not Italian,
you’re not French,
you’re not English,
you’re not all that s***.
You’re white.
SENTINEL: No. What do you intruder really know or fear?
[SCREAM]
Axel Kacoutié: If you seek enchantment,
revolution,
a magic in the mundane,
you will find me there through the waves,
hidden in the open
