How do you map something invisible?
Hidden Currents draws from golden lionheart collier’s original body of research, The Mother Patch. This work is a reimagining of the routes of forced migration across the African diaspora- known as the Maafa, or great disaster. For centuries, European and Asian empires trafficked African lives, forcing millions across the Atlantic and beyond.
Working with community partners and archival collaborators, collier activates hundreds of field recordings, interviews, and archival audio, weaving together Candomblé devotees, New Orleans Second Line processions, Bomba dancers, ring shouts, field hollers, water drumming, family interviews, and elders speaking of Hoodoo.
How do you map something invisible?
Hidden Currents draws from golden lionheart collier’s original body of research, The Mother Patch. This work is a reimagining of the routes of forced migration across the African diaspora- known as the Maafa, or great disaster. For centuries, European and Asian empires trafficked African lives, forcing millions across the Atlantic and beyond.
Working with community partners and archival collaborators, collier activates hundreds of field recordings, interviews, and archival audio, weaving together Candomblé devotees, New Orleans Second Line processions, Bomba dancers, ring shouts, field hollers, water drumming, family interviews, and elders speaking of Hoodoo.
August 6th, 2026 – August 27th, 2026
Every Thursday, Friday & Saturday
Doors 7:30pm; show 8:00pm
$20–$30
Pay-what-you-can tickets are available at doors for each show, on a first come, first served basis.
August 6th, 2026 – August 27th, 2026
Every Thursday, Friday & Saturday
Doors 7:30pm; show 8:00pm
$20–$30
Pay-what-you-can tickets are available at doors for each show, on a first come, first served basis.
You are invited into a sonic world- to listen deeply, to feel in your body, to imagine alongside others.
You are invited into a sonic world- to listen deeply, to feel in your body, to imagine alongside others.
golden lionheart collier (he/they) is an award-winning transdisciplinary artistic researcher and archival alchemist whose polymathic practice flourishes in the generative nexus where disciplines, communities, and epistemologies converge. For example, their synergistic work has recently spanned a performance of Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, film/sonic collaborations in the Arctic Circle, hosting a weekly radio show, and receiving a CODEX International Book Arts Biennial Research Fellowship. A MacDowell fellow, current Audium Theatre Spatial Sound Artist in Residence, and contributor to the Kirkus-starred Black Punk Now, collier was also a Fulbright Research Grant Nominee and finalist for the XENO PRIZE for Artists’ Books. Through engaging, accessible research dissemination, they forge portals to encounter marginalized histories as living testimonies of resistance, weaving generative connections towards more just futures.
Click here to learn more about golden’s innovative practice and research.
golden lionheart collier (he/they) is an award-winning transdisciplinary artistic researcher and archival alchemist whose polymathic practice flourishes in the generative nexus where disciplines, communities, and epistemologies converge. For example, their synergistic work has recently spanned a performance of Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, film/sonic collaborations in the Arctic Circle, hosting a weekly radio show, and receiving a CODEX International Book Arts Biennial Research Fellowship. A MacDowell fellow, current Audium Theatre Spatial Sound Artist in Residence, and contributor to the Kirkus-starred Black Punk Now, collier was also a Fulbright Research Grant Nominee and finalist for the XENO PRIZE for Artists’ Books. Through engaging, accessible research dissemination, they forge portals to encounter marginalized histories as living testimonies of resistance, weaving generative connections towards more just futures.
Click here to learn more about golden’s innovative practice and research.
This project is made possible in part through the generous support of the San Francisco Arts Commission.
This project is made possible in part through the generous support of the San Francisco Arts Commission.