Restorative Sonic Practices in Migrant Lives | We Who Move The World Forward

In this episode on We Who Move the World Forward, we open the Garden House Archives in ACUD Macht Neu by Fetewei Tarekegn to record conversations on visual and sonic practices that have historically transformed migrational daily experiences and ways of embodied archives. We open the conversation with (Im)migrant Noise and the Infrapolitical Space of Michigan, a sonic work by Shelley Calhoun-Scullion in collaboration with Hannes Hüfken. Shelley's research practice focuses on re-visioned sampled historical sound collages representing the migration of revolutionary ideas, resistance, and music as a form of time travel -- resulting in a non-linear reconstruction of automotive labour societies in Flint and Detroit Michigan from 1936-1989. Eiliyas from Mixtape Menage is in conversation with Fetewei dealing with identity and safety, re-inventing solidarities, traditions of creative preservation as self-care and de-traumatisation, the resilience of collective community collaborations and publishing minority stories through afro-futurist restoration in artistic embodied experiences.