SONIC REMITTANCE

What does home sound like? A mother’s whisper, the hum of a familiar street, the crackle of a fire, a rooster’s crow, temple bells echoing at dawn. Sounds that travel, accumulate and linger in the spaces we inhabit and those we long for.

SONIC REMITTANCE takes place in the framework of our current exhibition CLOSE TO HOME and is led by Abraham Tettey. In this listening session we invite you to share a sound that holds home: a song, a spoken word, a rhythm. Please bring the songs or other tunes you would like to share – on your phone, with your voice and memory, on vinyl, on a memory stick, ... Together, we will explore how these vibrations travel, carry memory, and sustain relationships, weaving them into a collective sonic archive of care and the traces of belonging.
 

Abraham Tettey is a Ghanaian curator and artist, an currently a curatorial fellow at SAVVY. His practice engages the intersections of identity, material culture, decolonial imaginaries, and community-building. During his fellowship, he plans to expand his research into worldmaking practices, living archives, and the lived politics of survival for artists and independent art spaces navigating systemic precarity. He looks forward to engaging in collective learning and curatorial experimentation grounded in care, radical imagination, and translocal solidarity.