Experimental artist GAIKA [@Gaikasees] is performing at Roundhouses’ AfroFutures

GAIKA is an experimental rapper, producer, writer, visual and performance artist. He brings dubmorphology X GAIKA: A Journey Through Afrofuturist Realms to Roundhouse on Saturday 1 April as part of Roundhouse AfroFUTURES.

As well as making raw and arresting sounds, GAIKA is an engaging writer and a visual and performance artist, having his audio-visual sculpture Zemel exhibited at 180 studios and The British Art Show in 2022. 

Words by GAIKA:

He who is born without land

Is born in the drift towards tomorrow

He becomes a hero of his own design 

In search of propulsive music

In a conversation with birth and death

And the meaning of ghosts 

How to forget them

And find  peace in all the worlds

You see, there is a part of us that does not exist

A void space amongst a network of stories

In that realm reside ghosts

there they are free to roam through time,

unbound by the marking of birth and death

or by the power invested in simple pen and ink. 

They are apparitions  and they haunt us from underneath the sea

underneath the wreckage of greed and violence

They  sing their immortal songs undestined and defiant. 

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