Omí, Nine Night Sala Comando 2025 by Alessandro Sala
Image Courtesy of artist
£5 / Limited free tickets available
Diasporas Now bring an evening of live sound and audiovisual performances to the SLG. Four Global Majority artists will present new work: Hannan Jones, Tiff Wellington, Omí and Emma Korantema.
Part of Diasporas Now’s national tour, Macrocosmic Futures, that draws on Afrofuturism, speculative fiction and ancestral technologies to imagine alternative futures beyond colonial and extractive systems. Across sound, body, ritual and image, artists explore how personal histories connect to wider political, ecological and more‑than‑human worlds.
ACCESS
- This is a loud performance event with low lighting
- One projection contains flashing lights
- Standing event; chairs available on request
- Not suitable for children
TICKETS
If you would like to attend this event but the ticket price is a limitation please get in touch as we have reserved a number of free tickets for low-income individuals. Contact us at: leila@southlondongallery.org
ABOUT DIASPORAS NOW
Diasporas Now is a live art community and cultural agency that champions artists of the Global Majority through collaborative performance incubation, institutional residencies, curated programming, and alternative arts education.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Hannan Jones is an artist of Algerian and Welsh origin raised on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja, Western Australia, based in Glasgow. Research-led and process driven, she practices at the intersections of moving-image, installation and sound. Jones deep-dives into concepts of hybridity, language, and rhythms that are associated with cultural and social migration, and psychogeography.
Sonically, Jones’ approach is rooted in improvisation, electronics, music concrète, and analogue recordings. Using samples and layering of audio material to create alternate possibilities, reclaim parallel histories, and reimagine connections between them.
Emma Korantema is a Ghanaian-British musician, writer and multidisciplinary artist from South London whose work moves between sound, philosophy and poetry. A former doctor, she uses music as an autobiographical form of inquiry into the body, power and liberation, exploring how sound can reveal and rewire human experience and healing.
Her project and debut album, The Complete Works 001 – Egya (2025) forms a sonic manifesto and capitalist critique that merges electronic composition, poetic narrative and philosophical reflection to ask what it means to remain human in an age of digital transhumanism. Rooted in Black philosophy and intuitive composition, her process transforms memory and emotion into sound, blurring the lines between theory, storytelling and ritual.
Tif Wellington practice explores the relationship between object and narrative, folklore and reality. Their work illuminates stories that have been considered as “other” within the West, storytelling through the interweaving of personal experiences growing up in London and cultural histories from their own Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Using photography, video, sound and sculpture as a way of communicating ideas; they approach installations and performances as a collection of thoughts that become embodied within a space, working site specifically to include the audience as a participatory medium.
Omí (b. 1996, they/she) is a musician, transdisciplinary artist and cultural producer of Jamaican-British, Italian and Brazilian heritage. They trained academically in classical piano, composition and sound design. Their practice brings together the attention to sound as an organic system, and the interest in sonic complexity, with the critical fabulations of a queer black diasporic body. Stemming from both research work, craft, ancestral technologies and instinct, their work is an intersection of music, sound art and body performance, blossoming into many other medias, such as dance, film, installation and visual. With their practice they aim at exploring what emerges of our own histories as Afro-diasporic bodies in Western dominated contexts such as that of experimental performative music, focusing on decolonial and contracolonial approaches, delving into matters of refraction of identity and memory, both personal and collective, to celebrate and critically engage their community.