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Dial-an-Ancestor In-Practice Session
May 30, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dial-an-Ancestor by Tamika Abaka-Wood is a long term participatory audio-service which is intended to be active 24/7 for 100 years. It reimagines who is asked to speak, what is spoken, how it is received and recorded. It is a living, breathing, growing tapestry of context, contradiction and wisdom centered around what it means to be alive right now.
Rooted in cultural anthropology, anti-disciplinary artistry and social practice we challenge colonized forms of knowledge production by centering and sharing our humanity, voices and experiences by co-creating a space that feels both intimate and insightful. Ancestors-in-
Join us for the in-person Dial-An-Ancestor in-practice sessions. Each session will kick off with a 15-minute audio-visual piece from Dial-an-Ancestor, followed by a intentionally designed dialogue-resource-prompt share which leads to an open hour of personal ticketed sessions for those who feel called to record.
Tamika Abaka-Wood [b. London, England. lives Brooklyn, NY] is an applied cultural anthropologist, researcher and social practice artist. The Dial-an-Ancestor hotline is: +1 844 992 2996. Leave or listen to messages. The archive is here: www.dial-an-ancestor.com
WHAT: Dial-an-Ancestor, In-Practice Sessions
WHEN: Friday, May 30, 2025
TIME: 7-9pm
WHERE: MoCADA Culture Lab II, 10 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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This series is presented by MoCADA’s Annual Open call and was made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs CDF fund.