Rhythm Race Revolution is an 8-week course with Aditi Jaganathan that uses music and its attendant cultural texts, as a site of deep study, through which ideas of race, gender, colonialism, healing and transformative justice are collectively explored. It is a radical learning space tracing the sonic(s) of resistance.
Session 3: Journeying the pluriverse with(in) Alice Coltrane
In this session we will traverse with and through the spiritual memory of Alice Coltrane, sedimented in the capacious archive of her music. We will dance in the liminality of her search for nirvana, and her deep yearning for collective spiritual transcendence. Journeying with her artistry we will tease out the mellifluous threads in her self-determined tapestry of liberation.
“Jazz came about not through a book but through a flight of memory" Édouard Glissant, 1990
Bio
Dr Aditi Jaganathan is a thinker and creator, writer and dreamer. Having worked at the intersections of law, culture and politics in various capacities, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation, she creates spaces of (un)learning as a site of radical praxis, using tools of music, film and visual culture, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production.
Rhythm Race Revolution is an 8-week course with Aditi Jaganathan that uses music and its attendant cultural texts, as a site of deep study, through which ideas of race, gender, colonialism, healing and transformative justice are collectively explored. It is a radical learning space tracing the sonic(s) of resistance.
Session 3: Journeying the pluriverse with(in) Alice Coltrane
In this session we will traverse with and through the spiritual memory of Alice Coltrane, sedimented in the capacious archive of her music. We will dance in the liminality of her search for nirvana, and her deep yearning for collective spiritual transcendence. Journeying with her artistry we will tease out the mellifluous threads in her self-determined tapestry of liberation.
“Jazz came about not through a book but through a flight of memory" Édouard Glissant, 1990
Bio
Dr Aditi Jaganathan is a thinker and creator, writer and dreamer. Having worked at the intersections of law, culture and politics in various capacities, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation, she creates spaces of (un)learning as a site of radical praxis, using tools of music, film and visual culture, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production.