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FUAIM Lecture - Deirdre Molloy - 03/10/24, Ó Riada Hall, 11:00
Black Atlantic Space-Time is an art series that presents Afrodiasporic embodied knowledge as ‘rhythm codes' that synchronise image, sound, dance and spoken language into expressions of identity and belonging. By turning towards indigenous knowledge, this multimedia narrative reaches for a decolonised future.
From her interactive map of Black Atlantic rhythms as intangible heritage – Deirdre will present theory, design, and audio/visual map content examples, including performances by Unity and rhythm culture-bearers from Africa and the Americas.
By visually uniting diaspora dance dialogue across space-time and language regions, the map makes ancestral, living knowledge more accessible – Afrocentric epistemologies emerge. Through rhythms encoded in collective muscle memory, the Black Atlantic body touches the cosmos – past, present, future.
Biography
Under the artistic name Unity Atlantic, Deirdre Molloy creates film, music and performance collaborations. Unity is a container for collaborations that flow from her PhD research. Thanks to EU funding, Martiniquan dancer Aurélie Capelle-Sigère joins Unity for the Black Atlantic Space-Time production through 2023-24. Transdisciplinary co-producers include Code Your Future (UK) and Gerador (Portugal) for the Project Manifest exhibition at L'Atelier in Nantes, France from 19.09 to 06.10 this year.
Molloy uses social dance ethnography and digital design to research Black Atlantic identity. Visiting the USA this year with Erasmus+ funding, she participated in Blues, DC Hand Dance, DC Bop, and street dance communities. Academic highlights of 2024 include presenting a paper at the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance at Duke University, at SLIPPAGE dance lab of Northwestern University and at Droppin’ Science hip hop conference in Cork. In 2022, Molloy affiliated with CIPHER ERC and won the Danijela Memorial Award for interdisciplinary innovation in Film, Music and Theatre. Molloy's practice-as-research follows degrees in Psychology (2.1 TCD), Multimedia (1.1 DCU) and Ethnochoreology (1.1 UL). Molloy is a PhD candidate at UCC in cotutelle with University of Toulouse, France. Her research website is designed to platform dance culture-bearer voices: