Many of the guests in cherry custard come into mixing via non-traditional routes (filmmaking, curation, writing, performance, poetry, and so on), so it only felt right to cast a spotlight over those who have inspired host christeeeene’s experimental artistic practice so far. Not only those that use mixes within their visual practice, but those who use words to inform their mixing. The reader, the writer, the artist, the activist, the poet and performer; they’re all here and they’re all cherries.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Esi Eshun is a London based multidisciplinary artist, writer and researcher who blends poetic text, sound, voice, and archival imagery in a bid to contest past, present and future forms of colonialism. Her work has featured at Tate Britain, RIBA, the Berlinale and the Borealis Festival among others. As a regular contributor to The Wire magazine, she writes on art/music intersections and diasporic avant-grades as a way of critiquing musical boundaries. For this mix, she takes inspiration from the exhibition Afrosonica : Soundscapes, at the Museum of Ethnography, Geneva, adopting a PanAfricanist stance that extends far beyond the continent’s borders to take in a plethora of other correspondences.