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the ‘echo’ referring to the world of sound in which this knowledge is produced and circulates
Chimurenga in collaboration with Nyabinghi Lab’s The Roots of Our Hands Run Deep as Revolt presents ‘Black Echologies’ an editorial series which invites thinkers, artists and communities to share intuitions, visions and reflections from their own ground, air, or water-based practice and observations. The Black Echo-logies series challenges mainstream ecological discourse—its coloniality and exclusion of indigenous knowledge. An ongoing inquiry into the origins of our relationship with nature, Black Echo-logies explores beyond and beneath the frame of the anthropocene.
Through histories of censorship and erasure many of these histories exist in sound. In oralities of our elders, imaginative futurist storytelling of the present, in all these audible incantations we find a experiential sensory learning of nature. Taking benefit from the intimacy of panafricanspacestation roving studio we dedicated a day long broadcast to the element.
In an effort to return to our first bonds with nature the Black Echo-logies series launched with a form of notebook, the first being Forest Notebooks by Mario Lewis officially launched in at HKW, Berlin in May 2025 Forest Notebooks brings together a (mostly) unfiltered interpretation of Lewis’ year-long journey working in the forests of Trinidad through striking illustrations and elementary notes. However, long before the launch Black Echo-logies Chimurenga’s publications and broadcasts have deeply with engaged with the discourse.
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