I am back in Portugal and really happy to present my most recent project, Intimate Strangers, in Lisbon (my hometown!) and Porto. Intimate Strangers was created in collaboration with the Nigerian writer Emmanuel Iduma, drawing inspiration from Iduma’s book A Stranger’s Pose, a unique blend of travelogue, musings and poetry, with a foreword by Teju Cole.

Combining music, text, image and field recordings collected by Iduma during his travels, Intimate Strangers explores such themes as of movement, home, grief, absence and desire in what Iduma calls “an atlas of a borderless world”. Like echoes from a distant reality, Intimate Strangers aims to reflect on how we see the other and how we describe hospitality and humanity for future generations.

Dia 16 de Julho, 16h
Festival Jazz no Parque, Fundação Serralves (Porto)
Bilhetes/ Tickets: Jazz no Parque – Fundação Serralves (Porto)

Dia 18 de Julho, 18h
Festival Robalo- Antena 2, Auditório do Liceu Camões (Lisboa)
Entrada gratuita/ Free entrance Sara Serpa, Sofía Rei, Aubrey Johnson
voice
Erin Pettigrew
spoken word
Qasim Naqvi
modular synth
Fabian Almazan
piano
Marta Viana
luz

This engagement is supported in part by Mid Atlantic Arts through USArtists International, a program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding, and Arte Institute.