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28.02.
2026
DREXCIYA LISTENING SESSION
Guided by Isabel Lewis
Foto: Ina Aydogan; Collage & Editing: amaaena
Drexciya’s myth is a fictional Afrofuturist backstory created around the Detroit electronic music duo Drexciya (James Stinson and Gerald Donald). The story that unfolds in their music and artwork is one in which an underwater nation comprised of survivors of the Middle Passage flourishes. In this way, Drexciya turns historical trauma into a powerful sci-fi world of hidden technology and mythology beneath the surface of the sea.
Isabel Lewis will guide a listening session in which she will first offer some historical contextualization as well as subtle somatic impulses after which Drexciya’s The Quest as both a complete electro work and a world-building document will be experienced in part. The music’s sharp drum-machine propulsion and submerged atmospheres move like transmissions from an underwater civilization, while the release’s framing text helps anchor myth as a speculative history of survival, mutation, and refusal. Tracks shift between urgency and drift, as if mapping different zones of a single imagined oceanic universe.
Time
17:00–18:30
Location
TQW Studios
Duration
90 Min
Price
Free admission
Additional Information
In English
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Dates
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SAT
28.02.
17:00 – 18:30
Drexciya Listening Session
Guided by Isabel Lewis
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Artist Bio
Isabel Lewis
is a Dominican-American artist and choreographer whose work takes on many different formats: from lecture performances and workshops to listening sessions, installations, publications, and what she has named hosted occasions. She has created projects around open-source technology and dance improvisation, social dances as cultural storage systems, collaborative choreographic formats, bodily techniques and ecological thinking, and rapping as an embodied speech act. Her works have been presented internationally at major institutions and biennials in the contexts of contemporary art, music, dance, and theater since 2003. Lewis led the Klasse für Performative Künste at the Fine Art Academy in Leipzig (HGB) from 2021 to 2025 and currently serves as Artistic Director of TQW together with Rio Rutzinger.
