SOONOQO:WE BECOME BODY IN WAVES OF LIGHT AND SOUND

“A change of the worldview can change the world viewed.” -Joseph Chilton “Pearce, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality.

SOONOQO: We Become Body in Waves of Light and Sound

I do not possess the language to truly describe the be-holdings within Soonoqo. As a term within the Somali language, it would be difficult to translate intocontemporary English. It considers a pluralistic worldview that allows 'becoming and returning' to bear witness of itself, within oneself while conjoining through space and time. Soonoqo, basks in the universal soul. Its otherness is imbued as the 'physical cosmos' and all it’s avatars and manifestations.

To speak in metaphor or in a sense of 'poetic meditation,' one would engulf whirling vortexes, volcanoes and maelstroms that end up in other universesfrom which bring new revelations or images. The senses are engaged as viewed in Bruno Ferreira Abdala's video art When Mother Breathes. It is here we can see a pluralist's sensibility where the cohorts of Soonoqo 'become and return' with offerings that contend with the mythical genesis through the acknowledgement and practices of ancestral wisdom, queering mores, spirituality and love. Thus creating fission through initiating and remembering. There is a subtlety of conjuration, ritual, humility, vulnerability in K.Tauches's Q.A.L. video- making that unfolds and reveals the sentience of a Nature that provides true sustainability.

Soonoqo is a web of interconnected lights in continuoussynchrony. It enables manifestations from varied domains or areas of perceptibility through human inner weavings of life experiences and becomes avariety of communicative prowess that encompasses video arts, film, photography, the written word and sonic compositions. These forms all ultimately resonate with and point toward healing where one/all is purified, catalyzed and cleansed through cooperation with nature, technology, shadow matter, dark matter and invisible matter. As can be seen in the film Womb not Tomb by Dea, where she investigates and yields to the teaching of the four elements or in Kiara Mohammad Amin's Black Presence a short film of talismanic energy and transformation. Soonoqo, We become Body in Waves of Light and Sound is an multimedia exhibition of 18 artists from around the world who share a common desire for healing, communal growth and interdependence with nature.

-S.Toxosi, 2023

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