Their research traces the political materiality of the sea through an analysis of underwater sound as a medium capable of revealing fractured and conflicting environmental realities, shaped by colonial historical narratives. Within this framework, rhythmic contamination and Afrofuturist trans-oceanic frequencies operate as forms of sonic intervention, challenging the violence of ecological extractivism.
Bringing into bodily and historical resonance the experiences of Afro-descendant diasporic communities, Iren’s work interweaves experimental electronics with healing practices as a way to honor, remember and expand the ancestral knowledge coded in sonic vibrations.
Iren has presented work in institutions including Matadero Madrid, La Casa Encendida, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Judson Church of New York, Conde Duque, among others, and is a long term collaborator of collectives Ayllu, Migrantxs Transgresorxs, Osikán Vivero de Creación, situating their emerging practice within a curatorial discourse at the crossroad of sound, art and anticolonial trans activism.
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