Ancestral Repertoires :: WORKSHOP

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WORKSHOP  24.05.2025  11:00–14:00
WITH  Romi Ron Morrison  
LANGUAGE The event takes place in English
FREE ENTRY  Donations welcome
ACCESS SAVVY is accessible by wheelchair

PARTICIPATION This workshop is for people who want to listen to their ancestors more deeply, especially for those of us whose ancestral relationships have been impacted by slavery, genocide, displacement, and colonial violence. If you are interested in joining us, kindly send an email with subject line "Ancestral Repertoires" to workshop@savvy-contemporary.com.

What are the repertoires for holding ourselves through a constantly disruptive present? 

Join us for a workshop on ancestral listening and sounding. Together we make the space for a reflective writing and ancestral listening ceremony. Guided by the idea of the repertoire we will share writing activities on oral archives, practice listening for ancestral voice, and perform an original sound work of our collective ancestral intelligences. 

We will eat together, tell stories, and convene. This workshop is limited to 20 participants. Please bring a notebook and an item that reminds you of an ancestor you wish to listen with.

The workshop is held by Romi Ron Morrison, currently artist in residence at SAVVY. 

Romi Ron Morrison is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and writer.  Their work investigates the personal, political, ideological, and spatial boundaries of race, gender, and social infrastructures within digital technologies. Using maps, data, sound, performance, and video, their installations center Black diasporic technologies that challenge the demands of an increasingly quantified world – reducing land into property, people into digits, and knowledge into data. Their current projects explore theories of Black Computational Thought, entropy, and forms of kinship that thrive in the face of uncertainty and unpredictability.  

Romi has exhibited work and given talks at numerous exhibitions, conferences, and workshops around the world including Transmediale (Berlin), The Kitchen (New York), ALT_CPH Biennial (Copenhagen), the American Institute of Architects (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Queens Museum (New York), and the Walker Museum of Art. They have been in residence at Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology, The School for Poetic Computation, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. Their writing has appeared in publications by MIT Press, University of California Press, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and Logic(s) Magazine. 

They have taught courses at Parsons School of Design and the University of Southern California (USC). They are currently an Assistant Professor in the Design Media Arts program at UCLA in Los Angeles and a 2024–2026 Just Tech Fellow. 

FUNDING  This project is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.