Sonic Performance by Christelle Oyiri
Sunday 04 May 2025 from 7:30pm to 9pm
Free upon registration
Mark Leckey has invited Christelle Oyiri to give a sonic performance that resonates with his current exhibition As Above So Below.
Christelle Oyiri shares Mark Leckey's interest in peripheral narratives, underground cultures and the evocative power of music and images. By combining personal archives, diasporic legacies and electronic languages, she has developed a body of work that blends memory and fiction. Both are committed to the emergence of alternative narrative forms capable of reenchanting our perception of the present.
Her DJ style is eclectic yet cohesive, relying more on textures, sound continuum and narrative rather than genres while still rocking the dance floor. Tackling the subjects of club culture, colonial alienation and alternative temporalities, she created “Collective Amnesia” in 2018.
Inspired by Cybernetic Club Research Unit’s Kodwo Eshun work on Afrofuturism and music, this multidisciplinary performance mixing film and DJing, and traditional vocal performance of griology celebrates the forgotten history of logobi, an urban Afro-French dance from the mid-00s merging hardcore techno and coupé décalé.
In 2023, she participated in the collective exhibition Au-delà at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris.