Curated by Kiera Coward Deyell, Angelica Udueni and Adedamola Boluwatife, Black Obsidian Sound System present their picks from Fringe, accompanied by a deep listening session in response.
Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) was established in the summer of 2018 with the intention of bringing together a community of queer, trans and non-binary black and people of colour involved in art, sound and radical activism. Following in the legacies of sound system culture they wanted to learn, build and sustain a resource for our collective struggles. The black-led system, based in London, is available to use or rent by community groups and others with the purpose of amplifying and connecting them.
B.O.S.S's work includes renting the system to the community at subsidised rates or for free, technical workshops, live performance events, club nights, art installations and various creative commissions including a short film ‘Collective Hum’ (2019) for LUX & the ICO and 'The Only Good System is a Sound System' for Liverpool Biennial (2020). In 2021 B.O.S.S was shortlisted for the Turner Prize and presented an exhibition at Herbert Museum and Gallery Coventry.
The Piehouse is a not-for-profit, worker-run, wheelchair accessible music and arts venue in a railway arch in Deptford. Their work focuses on platforming groups that typically find themselves left out of mainstream cultural programming, with a focus on queer, disabled, working class and POC artists.
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