What if the Nardal sisters were still speaking to the audience? What if their salon still existed – like a frequency traversing time, oceans and memories?
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AFRIKADAA #17: Politics of Sound #2. Bild: @obolopascale / Souffle sur les braises
Pascale Obolo’s project takes the form of a video-performance installation based on research for AFRIKADAA: Politics of Sound #2.
Obolo imagines the Nardal sisters’ salon as a living architecture of listening: a place of tranquillity where images, voices and music are no longer presented as documents of the past, but appear as active presences capable of opening up alternative perspectives on the future.
Le Salon des Écoutes Réparatrices revives the intellectual, political and emotional legacy of the Nardal sisters through an immersive experience of collective listening, reading and the exchange of sounds. For Obolo, the salon becomes a space for sensory mediation and healing in the face of a history of colonial violence and the erasure of Black memories.
At the heart of this concept are video-sound readings drawn from the Black sound archives compiled by Obolo, which aim to reveal the invisible continuities between the emancipatory struggles of the 20th century and the imaginaries of the 21st century.
The performance is guided by a simple yet speculative question: if Paulette and Jane Nardal were alive today, what music would they listen to in order to continue reflecting on the world?
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Dates
November 2026
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