Krista Dragomer and Báyò Akómoláfé have been collaborating since 2023. Báyò Akómoláfé is an international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, “trans-public” intellectual, and essayist. Their work together began when Krista was invited to join the assemblage of co-creators and contributors to the 2023 of iteration of We Will Dance With Mountains: Vunja! an online post-activist worldwide course-carnival, creating on-camera live drawings, sensorial documents of the WWWWM convenings. In 2024, Krista was invited to be the inaugural/ongoing Vunja Artist in Residence, working between the two organizations founded by Bayo, the The Emergence Network (TEN) and Dancing With Mountains (DWM). In 2025, Krista and Bayo co-created and co-facilitated Selah, a 4 day retreat at the Garrison Institute. Krista created created a custom portrait for the cover of Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader, published by Ayin Press, which also features several artworks by Krista throughout the book.
We Will Dance With Mountains, 2023
Bayo Akomolafe, Eden Pearlstein, and Krista Dragomer at the Garrison Institute Selah retreat, 2025.