JOSEPH ZEAL-HENRY; is a cultural worker bridging public service, cultural production, and spatial innovation for the public good. Currently serving as Director of Cultural Planning for the City of Boston and Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. Here is his INFO, E-MAIL and Instagram.
PROJECT INDEX
PUBLIC SERVICE
Making Space for Culture
East Bank
Designing a Circular Economy Primer
A House for Artists
CREATIVE PRODUCTION
Proximity Continuum Film
Proximity Open Rehearsal
Dancing Before the Moon
(Venice Architecture Biennial 2023)
SHUBZ at the V&A
SHUBZ at SOAS, Festival of Ideas
Sound & Solidarity
WE ARE HERE at the RIO
NOW YOU KNOW
SOUND ADVICE Branding
SPATIAL INNOVATION
Proximity Continuum Boston
Dox Thrash Garden
SUPA SYSTEM
National Galley 200
Co-Living in Countryside
A House for Britain
Graveney School Sixth Form Block
Wembley Park Drive
Wayland Close
Good Grief Tomb
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BRIDGING PUBLIC SERVICE, CREATIVE PRODUCTION & SPATIAL INNOVATION
The gatherings use music and sound to help articulate approaches to challenging colonialism and offering solidarity. We are inspired by collective, sonic rituals that music culture can catalyse. And, where mass movements and collective agency, particularly around driving social change, are born out of spaces that were created by music.
As spatial practitioners, we were particularly interested in exploring music and sound as a
material in which spaces can be formed around and what this tells us about how we occupy spaces of power, and the agency we have to shift and disrupt the status quo. Writers like Paul Gilroy have spoken about the importance of music culture in the development of The Black Atlantic culture after the abolition of slavery through “the sounds of the once forbidden drum”.
Sound & Solidarity is about uncovering the stories
of the forbidden drums through the creation of spaces for collective storytelling, knowledge exchange and community building through music, Sound & Solidarity listens to and celebrates the power of music as a connector of peoples, cultures, histories and ideas.
Previous discussions have been guided by the eclectic music choices of Don Cherry, the relationship between Nyabinghi hand-drumming and Yemeni sea-faring music, Bay Area hip-hop, Cypriot folk music, making the events themselves a manifestation of the idea of Sound & Solidarity.