Shamar Watt is an interdisciplinary artist who interrogates the entanglements of liberation through sound, movement, and visual art. Watt oscillates and modulates feedback noise to create and embody temporal “phantoms” within spaces, engaging audiences in multi-sensory experiences. His work delves into the porosity of the Black body and shadows, questioning how sound can be visualized and how movement can resonate audibly through sonic frequencies.

Rooted in Black radical forms of archetypes, Watt’s movement practice merges the intensity of Krump, the ritualistic gestures of Pentecostal pantomime, animist traditional forms from the maroons in Accompong, Jamaica, to the rural bush of Zimbabwe and the profound physicality of Butoh, forming a unique language of bodily articulation. His sonic landscape spans experimental electronic music, sampling, dub-techno, tribal rhythms, noise, and drone soundscapes. Committed to liberatory practices, Watt uses “spiritual entertainment” to forge new pathways for connection and communication, invigorating the ways we experience and interpret sound, movement, and presence.