10 May — 19 July 2025 Preview: 9 May, 5 – 8pm NewBridge Gallery

True Form Projects and Request Line: A listening session and talk with Faisal Hussain.

Saturday 19 July | 2 – 4pm

Resounding Diasporic Sonic Worlds is an exhibition and events programme exploring music and resistance among various communities and their diasporas.

Resounding Diasporic Sonic Worlds brings together film and video, photography, and sound alongside archival projects that centre radical approaches to the past, present and future; where archives are treated as living sites and archiving as a practice that challenges histories of colonial and racial violence.

We are living in an age of crisis, of ongoing genocide, of excessive racial, gendered, and colonial violence that, combined with monstrous capitalism and neoliberalism, cause colossal devastation, loss and hardship on land and human lives. Palestine, Sudan, Iran, Congo, Yemen, Haiti, and Syria are just a few of the many places where armed conflicts currently take place. Furthermore, the United States, under Trump’s second presidency, hit like a tsunami impacting the most vulnerable groups and communities, from trans and queer folks, Black and brown people, immigrants and asylum seekers to working-class people and many others far beyond the empire’s borders.

We know well that none of this is entirely new, as these places and these communities were always or for a long time, under some level of oppression and threat. This exhibition acknowledges this age of crisis and its long history(ies) in several ways and forms. At the same time, to borrow from the former Black Liberation Army Member (BMA) and activist Assata Shakur’s famous saying, “Where there is oppression, there will be resistance,” this exhibition is committed to exploring themes of resistance and protest subtle and forceful, covert and overt, carried by individuals and collectives.