CLOSING: EXTEND THE KNOWLEDGE: A SONIC SHARING: SNAPSHOTS #7: Transition through Transmission

As the Beaver moon looms, and our exhibition: Transition Through Transmission by Innavasions draws to a close, we invite you to a collective listening session on November 20th. A SONIC sharing, an invitation — to bring and play a Jazz (or subgenre) vinyl record from your collection. It can be any record which you consider to be foundational and worth sharing. 

We’ll gather at Metro54 as a homage to the informal spaces formed in Diasporic (be)longing. Parties and living rooms have always been vital spaces to celebrate and pass on diasporic knowledge and culture to sustain our communities. 

We’ll open the evening with a performance from renowned musician, composer and trumpeter: Aquiles Navarro. Proceeding this, Innavisions and Aquiles will host a collective sharing session, inviting you to participate in whichever you’d like. Pass it down, extend the knowledge. Looking forward to seeing you there!

At the heart of Transition through Transmission lies the question of how knowledge, memories, and cultural expression are passed to the next generation within Black diasporic lifeworlds. Innavisions connects spiritual, cosmic, and African diasporic forms of knowledge with his visual language. The exhibition brings together works from different periods of Innavisions’ practice, moving between sound, installations, and artworks. The space unfolds through the frameworks of day and night, two distinct energies emerging: colour, pattern, sound, and image advance and recede.

Aquiles Navarro is a Canadian-born, Panamanian, New Yorker now based in Brussels. Trumpeter, composer, DJ and founder of Panamanian music label River Down Records. Known for his vibrant musical force whose artistry transcends boundaries, blending avant-garde jazz, modalism, Latin traditions, and electronic production. Renowned for his fearless improvisations and innovative compositions, Navarro has left an indelible mark on the contemporary music scene.