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Tabita Rezaire is infinity longing to experience itself in human form. Her path as an 
artist, devotee, yogi, doula, and farmer is all geared towards manifesting the divine 
in herself and beyond. As an eternal seeker, Tabita’s yearning for connection finds 
expression in her cross-dimensional practices, which envision network sciences &#8211; 
organic, electronic and spiritual &#8211; as healing technologies to serve the shift 
towards heart consciousness.
Embracing digital, corporeal and ancestral memory, she digs into scientific 
imaginaries and mystical realms to tackle the colonial wounds and energetic 
misalignments that affect the songs of our body-mind-spirits. Tabita’s work is 
rooted in time-spaces where technology and spirituality merge as fertile ground to 
nourish visions for connection and emancipation. Through screen interfaces and 
healing circles, her offerings aim to nurture our collective growth and expand our 
capacity for togetherness.
Tabita is based near Cayenne in French Guyana, where she is birthing AMAKABA &#8211; 
her vision for collective healing in the Amazonian forest. Tabita is devoted to 
becoming a mother to the world.
Her offerings have been shared widely – Centre Pompidou, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, 
Paris; MASP, São Paulo; Serpentine, London; MoMa, NY; New Museum, NY; Gropius 
Bau, Berlin; MMOMA, Moscow; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; ICA London; 
V&amp;A London; National Gallery Denmark; The Broad LA; MoCADA, NY; Tate Modern, 
London; Museum of Modern Art, Paris – and presented for international biennales 
in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Kochi, Athens, and Berlin and Sydney.
She is represented by the Goodman Gallery in South Africa.

Tabita Rezaire

Deep Down Tidal excavates the power of water as a conductive interface for communication. From submarine cables to sunken cities, drowned bodies, hidden histories of navigations and sacred signal transmissions, the ocean is home to a complex set of communication networks. As modern information and communication technologies become omnipresent in our industrialized realities, we urgently need to understand the cultural, political and environmental forces that have shaped them.
Looking at the infrastructure of submarine fibre optic cables that transfers our digital data, it is striking to realize that the cables are layered onto colonial shipping routes. Once again the bottom of the sea becomes the interface of painful yet celebrated advancements masking the violent deeds of modernity.
Deep Down Tidal navigates the ocean as a graveyard for Black knowledge and technologies. 
From Atlantis, to the ‘Middle passage’, or refuge seekers presently drowning in the Mediterranean, the ocean abyss carries lost histories and broken lineages while simultaneously providing the global infrastructure for our current telecommunications. Could the violence of the Internet lie in its physical architecture?
Like countless African and indigenous traditional sciences, research in physics now suggest that water has the ability to memorize and copy information, disseminating it through its streams. What data is our world’s water holding? What messages are we encoding into our waters? Beyond historical sorrow, water is a portal to other realities as its mysterious sealife of mermaids, water deities, and serpent spirits celebrated in many cosmologies remind us.
Deep Down Tidal enquires the intrictate cosmological, spiritual, political and technological entangled narratives sprung from water as an interface to understand the legacies of colonialism.

Deep Down Tidal

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Tabita Rezaire – Deep Down Tidal

Hussein Shikha is a multidisciplinary artist, graphic designer, writer, and researcher. He was born and raised in Iraq and moved to Antwerp in 2009. He graduated with an MA in visual arts from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. His work deals with the preservation, translation, and digitization of the visual culture from his intersectional experience as an Iraqi-Belgian. Currently, he is doing research on the erasure of handmade Iraqi tapestries and its idea of ‘beauty’ that relates to Islamic art, as a way to de-modernize his creative practices.

Hussein Shikha

Similar to layers of threads, the brain can learn to recognize patterns which makes it capable of weaving together visual forms to create a visual tapestry or simply our sight. 
Following Donna J. Haraway’s theory on neuron connections, through the subjective multi-layered consciousness, the artist’s brain becomes a metaphor for the neural network in which the spectator experiences presented works. That inner tapestry is embodied in the visual representation of one&#8217;s brain.
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On the technical and aesthetic capacities of this work, pixelation becomes a thread or a connection between technologies of weaving and the development of digital computing. This work becomes an opposition against arguments which relegates carpet weaving to an older temporal order, one incapable of connecting to modern technologies. Contrary to conventional ways of seeing digital technologies, there are real and vital connections – structural, aesthetic, and even spiritual connections – between older ways of weaving reality and newer ways.

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Hussein Shikha – Weaving Of Sight

Laura Nsengiyumva is a Brussels-based artivist, architect and researcher. Through her interdisciplinary practice, Nsengiyumva explores themes such as diasporic experience, hidden histories, North-South relations and empathy. She speaks about these topics through images and interventions on colonial spaces. . Her artivists actions like PeoPL (the melting of a statue of Leopold II) and Queen Nikkolah, are part of her research project &#8220;Shaping the presence of the African diaspora in Belgium&#8221;. Her transcultural view of history is based on human stories that invite us to find what brings us together.
Nsengiyumva is affiliated as an artistic researcher to Kask, the School of Arts of HOGENT, and howest. She won the first prize at the Kunstsalon Ghent in 2011, and the second prize at the Dakar Biennale in 2012. She is an artist resident of Kult-XL.

Laura Nsengiyumva

Helen is the biographical monolog of a young european woman. She speaks about her lovelife with a touching since- rity. Based on the buddhist idea that pain has the power of connecting people, her monolog is used by Afro-European women as an opportunity to make their voices heard. They share Helen’s pain by dubbing her voice in their maternal language. 
The languages are spread in the space in front of the screen in several auditive areas. It becomes an assembly of women as well as a travel for the visitor wandering through the voices. The non-understanding of the languages allows the visitor to experience exclusion and get to know the diversity of the African languages. As well as the understanding of one the languages leads to repair communitary links around an apolitical subject.
In the manner of the American soaps dubbed in Spanish, this «sound-cartography» is a way to claim the African presence in Europe and raise the idea of an Afro-European identity.

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