We Will Dance With Mountains, Vunja! is a series of mixed-media drawings created during the live sessions of Bayo Akomolafe’s global online course-festival of the same title.
Krista was invited to be the artist-in-residence for the 9th and final iteration of this very popular course with over 1,400 participants attending the live sessions and more attending asynchonously. Tasked with creating sensorial documents of these live convenings, all of the drawing happened on camera, visible to hundreds of participants watching her hand move like a translator during the various discussions between philosophers, musicians, artists, and activists co-presenting with Bayo throughout the course. Participants revisited these works during discussion sessions, using them as prompts for integration practices that combine philosophical inquiry with sensorial-somatic practice.
All titles correspond to the live session titles:
Sensorium I, Sensorium II, Dancing in the Afrocene, The Minor Gesture, Hears in Red, Sees in Wet, Getting Lost in the Forest, Sawubona.
Sensorium I
Sensorium II
Dancing in the Afrocene
The Minor Gesture
Hears in Red, Sees in Wet
Sawubona
mixed media on paper: walnut inks and dyes, watercolors, a variety of ink pens, pencils, mushroom prints, rubbings, tracings, and found materials
all works 11”x14”
inquiries and prints: studio.kristadragomer@gmail.com
Getting Lost in the Forest