soilsoul — watabodies.me

soil^soul

^{soilsoul is the collective pseudonym for the transnational artistic fusion between paris cyan cian and trécha gay jheneall. Their work blends diasporic

rituals and experimentation across moving image, text, sound, performance, and digital creation.

Their current project, watabodies, explores collaboration, curation, and diasporic archival practices, with a focus on water bodies and ecosystems of the

Gulf South and Caribbean regions.

They aim to study, record, and engage with these areas, particularly water-centered practices of Indigenous and Afro diasporic communities.}

paris (cyan) cian

cyan cian is a New Orleans Black girl playing and composing with devotion and duration. As a movement architect, scholar, and curator working with and through various interdisciplinary forms of dance, drawing, film, photography, and sound, cyan’s creative work mobilizes embodied memory and ecological play into a worldmaking practice. Concerned with notions of Black girlhood, spatiality, ecology, and time, cyan is the founder and director of theShoreCollective, a community of artists playing with performance architecture, sonic poetics, and ecology as choreography.

trécha gay jheneall

trécha gay jheneall is a transdisciplinary fluid artist born and raised in Jamaica. Between childhood and adolescence, their life oscillated between Kingston and Portmore before rehoming in the United States. Their creative practice considers the action and movement, memories, and homemaking rituals of Afro-Caribbean People as practice towards a liberatory consciousness, establishing collective and individual notions of belonging, nativity, embodiment and migration. Activated within transdisciplinary modalities using video, sound, performance and installation, Trécha clarifies the relationship between the corporeal and the land, through various processes of ritual,labor, survival, death and living.