CHAOS CLAY (FR, 1992)
Residency period: May – July 2021
At La Becque, Chaos Clay developped the stage creation project Seamarroonx // Fleeting Archipelagos, born from research into club culture and the use of sound as a tool for transmitting and producing space for racialised queer communities. Inspired by the mythological universe (itself partly inspired by Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic) created by the electronic music duo Drexciya in the 1990s, according to which the descendants of pregnant slave women thrown overboard slave ships survived and founded an underwater civilisation in the Atlantic, the project narrated these mutant and marooned descendants, examining its aquatic, temporal and acoustic dimensions from a queer and Afrofuturistic perspective.
Chaos Clay is an artist, researcher and curator, now based in Geneva, who adoptstheoretical research, music, performance and video to create hybrid experiences and focus on cultural productions by racialised queer people, blending theoretical with popular knowledge to create an empowering discourse. An MA graduate in Fine Arts (CCC – Critical Curatorial Cybernetic Studies) from HEAD – Genève and a BA graduate in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, Chaos Clay is an Afrofuturistic DJ and producer, a founding member of the Archipelagogo Club nights, which promote the work of racialised queer people in Geneva. Through music, Chaos Clay travels through time and brings to light stories that have been kept secret in order to create on the dancefloor a space for expression and coming together for a multiplicity of bodies and identities.