Satch Hoyt
Black Feminism, Women in Leadership and the Role of the Drum in Black Rebellion
Seminar, English, 2 SWS, 2 ECTS
Wednesdays, 14-16 h, weekly, starts 23.10.2024, Hardenbergstr. 33, room 4
ATTENTION: Wednesday, 13.11.2024: meeting at Hamburger Bahnhof!

In tandem, this seminar will address Black Feminist Theory and the subject of Black women in leadership, as well as the role of the drum in Black Rebellion. Whilst navigating existing oppressive social and political systems, we will re-imagine alternative structures of liberation via reading, art making, and music listening sessions, and reflect on women leaders such as Audre Lorde, Queen Nanny, Harriet Tubman, Sonia Sanchez, Elizabeth Catlett, Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone, and others.
Asking the vital question, of how artists infiltrate society and offer divergent progressive options to create a more culturally inclusive, nonconformist future, we will focus on the subject of fugitives from Maroon societies, through civil rights, and Pan Africanism, to our current Black Lives Matter movement.

Satch Hoyt is a visual artist and a musician, his diverse and multifaceted body of work - whether sculpture, sound installation, painting, musical performance, or musical recording - is united in its investigation of the “Eternal Afro-Sonic Signifier” and its movement across and amid the cultures, peoples, places, and times of the African Diaspora. Those four evocative words (a term coined by Hoyt) refer to the “mnemonic network of sound” that was enslaved Africans’ “sole companion during the forced migration of the Middle Passage.” lt was, and is, a hard-won somatic tool kit for remembering where you come from and who you are - and maybe, where you’re going - against all the many odds. Of Jamaican-British descent, Hoyt was born in London and currently lives in Berlin. Having also spent time in New York, Paris, and Mombasa, - all points on the many-sided and ever-expanding star that is the African Diaspora.