Workshop with Nkisi – ‘On the Wolf´s Trail’
April 24th 18h-21h
Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12 r/c, 1170-112 Lisboa
3rd floor , access by stairs
Free Entry , participation limited to 15 people
Registration link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_fdziPmz-he64B7wgTC6O6TrXeXbhTW65v_EoWbwD08Ukhw/viewform?usp=header
This workshop engages with sonic crafts as more than artistic expression—they are technologies of communication, archives of ancestral knowledge, and tools for collective cohesion. Across cultures, musical traditions have long been used to shape reality, channeling vibrational harmonics to influence bodies, environments, and the unseen. Many of these practices, once central to healing and education, have been forced underground by dominant epistemologies.
Through guided listening, voicework, and embodied sonic exploration, we will journey through musical phenomena that transcend time—encountering the spectral resonances of archival recordings, the presence of sonic imprints, and the rituals of sound as a metaphysical force. Considering sound as a form of paralinguistic transmission, we ask: what else is captured beyond the music? What does sound remember that history forgets?
Engaging ancestrality as methodology, this session invites participants to uncover hidden sonic lineages, reactivating lost or suppressed traditions through embodied practice. As a living archive, voice and rhythm act as conduits for collective experience, preserving intergenerational memory and opening portals to the unexplainable.
This workshop is open to all—no prior experience required.
Nkisi is a creative musician and artist based in London with Kongo roots. She uses sound as a way to explore the spiritual liberation technologies embedded in music and dance and how to keep these alive. Rhythm, sound and noise are used as ways to activate traces of memory inscribed in and by the body in motion. Through the use of sensory codes, Nkisi merges music, performance and research in ancient musical technologies to invite audiences to dance with the invisible and activate embodied forms of revolution and resistance for the unmaking and making of worlds.
“On the Wolf’s Trail” is a programme of sensory practices and lectures focused on decolonial ecology and restorative justice that explores pedagogical formats to debate forms of collective repair, restoration, resilience, and healing. Over four years, sessions will be led by practitioners from the fields of arts, environmental humanities, and post-colonial studies, and embrace topics such as mutualism and reciprocity, working towards the repair of ancestral relations.