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.

Cherrie Yu is an artist born in Xi’an, China and lives in the United States. She works in choreography, moving images, writing and installation. Her practice explores the transmission of embodied knowledge, the critical functions of the archival form, and the idea of the artist as amateur. She received a BA in English from the College of William and Mary in 2017 and an MFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute in 2019. She has produced dance films, lecture performances, and documentaries in the past few years, and she continues to form collaborative relationships with artists and non-artists alike.

She has been an artist in residence at the Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, Macdowell, Kala Art Institute and Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. Her works have been exhibited at ICA Maine, Stove Works, Prismatic Ground Film Festival, Essex Flowers Gallery, Movement Research at Judson Church and Pageant Space.