A beautiful new mix from Iceboy Violet (@iceboy_violet).

"a mix that was supposed to be about aloneness vs loneliness, which wandered and wavered out and back into my grasp and turned into a collection of beautiful songs that have filled the shape of my own silences thru the last year"

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Iceboy Violet is a producer//vocalist channeling the energy, emotionality and resistance of Grime music. Giving voice to anxieties, anger and defiance as personal and collective catharsis.

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Iceboy Violet - an attempt to fill the shape of silence

Stuck In The Toilet

Anti Work

Music To Kill Yourself To

@zzzakia

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We are thrilled to launch the online programme for ‘From The Ground Up: The Gathering’ with an exclusive mix from Zakia Sewell. Featuring a typically eclectic selection, the mix responds to the British countryside and the programme for ‘From The Ground Up’.

Mick Moloney - Flute Solo
John Luther Adams - The Place Where You Go To Listen
Marlais - The Cuckoo
Victoria Macarte – Evergreen
Choco Indians of Colombia - Healing Song
Brighde Chaimbeul - Taladh Nan Cearc
Ivor Cutler - I'm A Yellow Fly
Peter Brotzmann & Han Bennink - Schwarzenbachtalsperre No.7
The Incredible String Band - Water Song
Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - Four Hundred Years
Pop Maynard - Three Sons of Rogues
Muckers - Barl-E-Corn
Jake Hottell – Horizon
Nicolas Gaunin – Haamauruuru
Gazelle Twin & NYX - Better In My Day
Thomas Bush - PRESENCE: MARTIN
Nansi Richards & Telynores Maldwyn - Clychau Aberdyfi
Gwenno - Hunros

Find out more

From the Ground Up: Zakia Sewell

Stuck in the Toilet (Remix)

@Babeworld-TV

Track list:

Track 1 Rico Nasty - Blow Me
Track 2 Doechii - Bitch I’m Nice
Track 3 Ol’ Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Track 4 Rico Nasty Feat. Marshmello - Watch Your Man
Track 5 070 Shake - History
Track 6 The Mamas and The Papas - California Dreamin’
Track 7 The Peggies - Centimetre (Rent a Girlfriend Intro Song)
Track 8 Frank Ocean - Blue Whale

Babeworld x Utopian Realism Mix

Guest speaker: Esha Pillay (she/her)  
 
Taking inspiration from her feature in Tamil Futures 2020, Esha Pillay presents her vision for a Tamil future as a low-caste coolie from Fiji - encouraging viewers to further their understanding of gendered and caste-based violence(s) of indentured labour, and their intersections with intergenerational traumas. 

Resources for the episode (as mentioned in the episode): 

- Dr. Gabrielle Jamela Hosein & Dr. Lisa Outar, Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments 

- Lainy Malkani, Sugar, Sugar: Bitter-Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers 

- Dr. Margaret Mishra, Between Women: Indenture, Morality and Health 

Biography  

Seema Mattu is a Valmiki world-building trickster, whose multi-channel practice is framed as a theme park—known as SEEMAWORLD. Through the playfulness of intersecting amenities and services, visitors are prompted to portal around a unifying setting weaved by Seema’s own multi-minority personhood. 

With an interest in lo-fi high fantasy storytelling, SEEMAWORLD fuses both CGI and IRL environment-building, character creation, mixed-media animation, sound design and visual spectacle to explore: systems of caste, South Asian GL (girl(s) love), queer sorcery, fan labour and classifications of gender via digital technologies. 

Recent projects include work with: Berwick Film and Media Festival, IKON gallery, Eastside Projects, New Art City, Blindspot Gallery and QUAD. In April 2022, she completed both Film London’s FLAMIN Fellowship and a year-long residency with Wysing Arts Centre in March 2023. In December 2021, Seema became a QUAD International Digital Fellow, leading to her first major solo show in Autumn 2023.  

Esha Pillay is an Indo-Fijian writer based in the U.S. whose research looks into intergenerational traumas among Indo-Fijian communities who are descendants of indentured labour and Girmit. She has a focus on caste violence throughout Girmit and in the present and challenges the "post-caste" narrative among descendants of indenture. Her own family stories and lived experiences guide her activism and story-telling across various digital platforms. Esha used to host a dedicated Instagram account, coolie_returns, to share further marginalized histories within larger indentured labour histories across different countries, islands, and diasporas. Her educational posts are now accessible on her website (izlandkuli.wixsite.com/cooliereturns), and you can find her other writing and projects at linktr.ee/izland_kuli.

Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 1: girmit histories with izland kuli 🇫🇯

Guest speaker: Helen Starr (she/her) 

With an undercurrent of friendship captured throughout the episode’s joy and laughter, Helen and Seema sit in community with one another and discuss: how caste in Trindidad came not to be, attitudes toward bodily fluids in municipal work, touch and hapticality, how we can hold each other through caste and by a Global South lens - and the ties between all of this and SEEMAWORLD. Can we get to the beat?

Content Warning: This podCASTE episode contains strong language around the 38-minute mark

Resources for the episode (as mentioned in the episode): 
 
 - Fantasy in the Hold, by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney: HAPTICALITY, OR LOVE 

 - The metamorphosis of caste among Trinidad Hindus by N. Jayaram 

 - Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur 

About Helen Starr 

Helen Starr is an Afro-Carib Trinidadian world-building curator, commissioner, cultural activist and founder of The Mechatronic Library (2010). Her innovative practice establishes a Carib epistemology for digital art focusing on immersive media and AI technologies that express Indigenous concepts such as gender fluidity, skin-thinking, simultaneous multiple realities and nature godded worlds.  

Working mainly with artists who have protected characteristics, Helen Starr has commissioned artworks from artists including Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Seema Mattu, Aliyah Hussain, Rebecca Allen, Phoebe Collings James, Kinnari Saraiya and Anna Bunting-Branch, who have gone on to exhibit in museums across the globe. 

Helen Starr has curated and produced artworks shown at many exhibitions both nationally (FACT, Liverpool, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge, QUAD in Derby and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead) and internationally. As board member she was part of the launch of Format Festival’s Mass Isolation Project (2020-23) where image makers from around the world were invited to document the Coronavirus pandemic via Instagram. With over 40,000 submissions from 90 countries it became the largest visual archive of the pandemic. 

She has published several essays on the duality of Afro-indigeneity, was digital consultant on the Ab Rogers Design team (Wolfson Economic Prize 2021) and has served on the Jury for Ars Electronica Animation Festival in Linz Austria. Starr lives in London with her family and is devoted to the writings of the Jamaican philosopher Sylver Wynter.

Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 2: troublemakers in trinidad 🇹🇹

Guest speaker: Tobi Adebajo (they/them) 

Tobi’s interest in the topic of caste and casteism stems from a curiosity about what can be unearthed at the intersections of casteism and colourism - especially from a Nigerian context - to focus on seeking / creating worlds and spaces where we arrive to find healing and repair from this violence.   

This podCASTE episode contains strong language throughout 
 
Resources for the episode (as mentioned in the episode):  

Tedx Talk led by Ogechukwu Stella Maduagwu (President of the IFETACSIOS or Initiative for the Eradication of Traditional and Cultural Stigmatization in Our Society Organisation) - Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U74ph7T3aoc 

Discrimination based on descent in Africa, via The International Dalit Solidarity Network - Link: https://idsn.org/wp-content/uploads/user_folder/pdf/Old_files/africa/pdf/Africafull.pdf 

About Tobi 

Tobi Adebajo is an Anti-Disciplinary artist and Doula who navigates various creative / communal spheres. Tobi works as a full spectrum Birth and death Doula - Primarily supporting the QTIBIPoC community.  

Tobi’s creative pieces primarily focus on communing with ‘the Other’ via Film, Movement, Sound, Visual & Written formats. Their works centre the depths & nuances of a variety of themes such as: Dis/Ability, Black Sexuality, Desire, Healing, Queer Love, & Yoruba traditions.

Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 3: colourism, casteism and its intersections 🇳🇬

Guest speaker: Manu Kaur (they/them) 
 
Caste-oppressed diasporic queers discuss tragic love through Seema’s 2022 Role-Playing Game (RPG), love x lore, and the influence of caste on power dynamics & social hierarchies within South Asian queer circles - plus a comparison of lived experiences between India, the US and the UK. 

This podCASTE episode contains strong language throughout. 

Resources for the episode (as mentioned in the episode):  

Caste, Queerness, Migration and the Erotics of Activism - Link: https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/7173

love x lore (2022) -RPG by Seema Mattu – Link: https://tinyurl.com/lovexlore
(Contains one use of strong language) 
By retelling stories at the core of Punjabi mentality and society, love x lore (2022) is an online RPG (role playing game) which sparks perpetual discourse around caste hierarchies, queer sorcery and expectations of sex and gender.

About Manu: 

Manu is a queer, Dalit, non-binary femme who is committed to caste annihilation, queer liberation, and mental health activism. Their work is centered around advocating for caste oppressed communities, defending queer and trans lives, and dismantling the anti-Blackness that exists within the diasporic South Asian community. Manu dreams of a world that amplifies, uplifts, and protects Black, Indigenous, Dalit, queer, and trans lives.

Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 4: caste-oppressed queers 👽

To celebrate the launch of The Golden Crown, a new site-based commission from artist Carol Sorhaindo that explores memory, reflection, time and fragmentation, join artists Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy for a conversation exploring their research. The discussion will focus on their shared interests in growing projects and practices which are centred in collaboration and care.


The New Block Commission is a new set of commissioning from Wysing Arts Centre. Supported by the Art Fund Reimagine Project, the New Block Commission moves away from indoor, exhibition-based projects to an outdoor site-based approach that makes our work more visible.
This event has been published in two sections: 
The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part one: Presentations 
The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part two: Q&A

On Wysing Broadcasts, this podcast is available as videos with toggleable closed captions. Click ‘CC’ on the YouTube videos to toggle this on or off. 
⁠https://www.wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/the-new-block-commission-carol-sorhaindo-and-bella-milroy-in-conversation⁠
You can also listen to the conversation as a podcast on SoundCloud, Spotify and other podcast platforms.


About Carol 
Carol Sorhaindo is a visual artist with an MA in Creative Practice and a diverse portfolio career. She draws inspiration from nature and landscapes, with a particular interest in plants of economic, health, and ethnobotanical interest on the island of Dominica where she currently lives. Her research extends to use of plants as pigments and fibre extraction for textile dyeing and creative applications. 
Having lived in both the UK and Dominica, Carol’s own migration story, entangled transatlantic history and impact on mental wellbeing are of key importance. Carol explores the interplay of dark and light, joy and pain which are brought to light through botanical narratives which speak of migration, trauma, African and indigenous knowledge, resistance and healing. Carol also took part in a residency at Wysing in 2022.


About Bella 
Bella Milroy is an artist and writer who lives in her hometown of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She works responsively through mediums of sculpture, drawing, photography, text, writing, gardening and curating. She makes work about making work (and being disabled) and not being able to make work (and being disabled). This process-based practice is fundamental to her as a disabled artist. She is continually motivated by concepts of public and private spaces and where the sick and/or disabled body exists within them, themes which emerge throughout much of her work.

The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part one: Presentations

To celebrate the launch of The Golden Crown, a new site-based commission from artist Carol Sorhaindo that explores memory, reflection, time and fragmentation, join artists Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy for a conversation exploring their research. The discussion will focus on their shared interests in growing projects and practices which are centred in collaboration and care.


The New Block Commission is a new set of commissioning from Wysing Arts Centre. Supported by the Art Fund Reimagine Project, the New Block Commission moves away from indoor, exhibition-based projects to an outdoor site-based approach that makes our work more visible.


This event has been published in two sections: 
The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part one: Presentations 
The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part two: Q&A 

On Wysing Broadcasts, this podcast is available as videos with toggleable closed captions. Click ‘CC’ on the YouTube videos to toggle this on or off. 
⁠https://www.wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/the-new-block-commission-carol-sorhaindo-and-bella-milroy-in-conversation⁠ 
You can also listen to the conversation as a podcast on SoundCloud, Spotify and other podcast platforms.


About Carol 
Carol Sorhaindo is a visual artist with an MA in Creative Practice and a diverse portfolio career. She draws inspiration from nature and landscapes, with a particular interest in plants of economic, health, and ethnobotanical interest on the island of Dominica where she currently lives. Her research extends to use of plants as pigments and fibre extraction for textile dyeing and creative applications.


Having lived in both the UK and Dominica, Carol’s own migration story, entangled transatlantic history and impact on mental wellbeing are of key importance. Carol explores the interplay of dark and light, joy and pain which are brought to light through botanical narratives which speak of migration, trauma, African and indigenous knowledge, resistance and healing. Carol also took part in a residency at Wysing in 2022.


About Bella 
Bella Milroy is an artist and writer who lives in her hometown of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She works responsively through mediums of sculpture, drawing, photography, text, writing, gardening and curating. She makes work about making work (and being disabled) and not being able to make work (and being disabled). This process-based practice is fundamental to her as a disabled artist. She is continually motivated by concepts of public and private spaces and where the sick and/or disabled body exists within them, themes which emerge throughout much of her work.

The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part two: Q&A

Please note that the audio becomes quite loud at 9:43.

In this podcast we join artist-curator Joanna Holland (she/her) in conversation with Senior Programme Curator John Bloomfield (he/him) to discuss Joanna’s recent exhibition ‘Out of the Blue’, and aspects of her Wysing residency which took place from 2020-2023.

Her residency extended over a long period as it worked around several flares of chronic illness and three hospitalisations. The residency moved with Joanna, back and forth from the ‘blue’ spaces of hospital to the ‘green’ spaces of Wysing.

Joanna Holland and John Bloomfield In-Conversation - Sickness as practice and landscapes as freedom

Tune in to hear the new Syllabus partners PS2, TACO! (guest partner 2024-25) and New Art Exchange talk about their organisations and what they are most looking forward to on the Syllabus programme.

Read the podcast transcript here:
https://www.wysingartscentre.org/images/uploads/Syllabus_Meet_the_new_Partners_Podcast_Transcript.pdf

Syllabus is a collaboratively produced alternative learning programme in its seventh year that will support ten artists across ten months. The programme offers time to come together with artists from across the UK to discuss ideas, work, life and approaches to practice.  

Applications close Monday 18 March at midnight. 

Apply now! 
http://www.wysingartscentre.org//opportunities/syllabus

Syllabus: Meet the new Partners podcast

Ectopia – Head For Business

Ectopia – Sauna

A remix of "Bermondsey Lagoon" from Ectopia's debut album "life/section". Digital version of the album is on Bandcamp here https://wysingpolyphonic.bandcamp.com/album/life-section
Vinyl version available from here http://www.wysingartscentre.org/shop/shop_item/ectopia_life_section

Ectopia Remix

Ectopia – Bermondsey Lagoon (Golden Temple Remix)

A teaser of new material produced by Imran Perretta during a residency at Wysing Arts Centre.

Imran Perretta - Tommy Robinson (teaser)

We're very excited to share the first mix in our Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned mix series, by CRYSTALLMESS (@crystallmess).

"The mix INTROLUDO INFERNO is built around interludes and intros - sonic interstices that often allow musicians to be their most vulnerable and reveal the psyche behind their project.”

CRYSTALLMESS' work highlights the intersection between forgotten mythologies, memory and alienation.

See the full Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned Mix Series on our broadcast site, https://wysingbroadcasts.art.

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The Ungoverned: CRYSTALLMESS - INTROLUDO INFERNO

The second mix in our mix series for Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned comes from mobilegirl (@mobilegirl).

"I think every emancipation in its broadest sense goes hand in hand w a grieving process, a nostalgia for an alternative reality or future. So for this series I decided to make a mixtape with all original sketches and productions to soundtrack such process."

See the full mix series on our broadcast site: https://wysingbroadcasts.art

The Ungoverned: mobilegirl - II

The third mix in our mix series for The Ungoverned comes from LYZZA.

@lysadasilva

It’s not really like any mix I’ve made before, just because I didn’t feel like DJing really and playing like club stuff, it’s actually pretty out of my comfort zone. […] when you start making music you kind of figure out what you’re going to do, you create this identity, and then every project you do is in that genre, or fits in with something else, and I just realised there’s a lot of things that I haven’t been able to really showcase’ (LYZZA)

See the full Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned Mix Series on our broadcast site, wysingbroadcasts.art.

The Ungoverned: LYZZA - Collective Delirium

Interview/soundscape with AUDINT as part of Wysing Polyphonic, originally broadcast on @noodsradio.

The Ungoverned: AUDINT Interview/Soundscape

We're very excited to share the fourth in our mix series for Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned by collective AUDINT - 'Unsound: Undead'.

"Through our research we have discovered a new sound. Sonic events that do not take place within the spectrum of the living and the perceptible; emerging from counterfactual and counterfictional thinking;  belonging to zones of transmission between life and death; to subaquatic, Cthuluesque, non-human forms of life, and to unsound, vibrational milieus inaccessible to the senses. Perceptible sound is only a subset of the broader vibrational continuum." (AUDINT)

The mix is composed of the following parts: 

1. IREX 2 
2. 'Code Omega', credit concept/text by Souzanna Zamfe, sound design by Savvas Metaxas  
3. ‘Touching Nothing’, sound design by Steve Goodman 
4. 'The Lament', concept/text by Eleni Ikon, sound design by Caroline Schnurrer  
5. 'Dossier 37', sound design by Steve Goodman

To find out more, please visit our broadcast site https://wysingbroadcasts.art, where you can also find previous mixes in the series by CRYSTALLMESS, mobilegirl, and LYZZA.

The Ungoverned: AUDINT - Unsound: Undead

We're very excited to share the fifth in our mix series for Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned by Hannah Catherine Jones, 'Owed to Saudade'.

“The first 9 minutes deals with grief – personal and collective - and acts as a kind of elegy to those who’ve been murdered by the police. Then it moves into a kind of dream sequence – I think a lot of people have been dreaming even more intensely than they usually do…I certainly have...and it kind of allowed me to explore some interlocking feelings around different types of love that I was not expecting to come out…everything overlaps when thinking about what the tracks I composed it with mean (to me) in different contexts…it’s deffo a reflective mix but the BPM steps up towards the end lol.” (Hannah Catherine Jones)

To find out more, please visit our broadcast site wysingbroadcasts.art, where you can also find previous mixes in the series by CRYSTALLMESS, mobilegirl, LYZZA and AUDINT.

The Ungoverned: Hannah Catherine Jones – Owed to Saudade

Wysing Arts Centre is a thriving cultural campus of ten buildings across an 11acre rural site in south Cambridgeshire which hosts experimental 
residencies for UK and international artists, and delivers a critically acclaimed public programme of gallery exhibitions and events including conferences, symposia, workshops and music events. 

Buy the first release by music project Ectopia from our website: 7 tracks, mixed and mastered by Rupert Clervaux

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