2020

We invoke the Black. To Rest. is a collaborative performance by textile and performance artist Enam Gbewonyo and composer and sound artist Liz Gre. Presented at Tate Britain in response to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Fly In League With the Night. Gbewonyo and Gre fused sound and movement in an ode to Blackness and repose.

The electro-acoustic soundscape composition was developed through an ethnographic method and included distributed authorship amongst Tate Collective Producers; Afeni Payne-Bonnick, Emem Usanga, Haris Ashraf, Iman Datoo, and Jasmine Pierre.

Composed by: Liz Gre
Soloist: Liz Gre
Movement: Enam Gbewonyo
Featured Poet: Peju Oshin