The Ground Screams To Whisper is an experimental, Afro-Gothic and Afrosurrealist immersive enigma poem, a creative polyphonous distillation of healing that reclaims and reimagines silenced histories through speculative world-building, cultural cosmologies, and sensory storytelling.

Drawing on the silence of colonial archives surrounding Agĩkũyũ women’s resistance during British occupation in Kenya, the work becomes a form of counter-history and speculation—inviting audiences to engage with erased memory through participation, ritual, and ancestral connection.

Structured across six poetic vignettes, rooted in Eastern and Southern African cosmologies, and influenced by Saidiya Hartman’s critical fabulation, The Ground Screams To Whisper operates as a sensory document of resistance, healing, and remembrance. It interrogates the limitations of traditional historiography and leverages immersive technology to create a speculative but grounded intervention—centring marginalized voices, embodied memory, and non-linear storytelling.

As The Ground Screams To Whisper is a multi-platform project, this iteration presents a series of experiments with soundscapes, building immersive and/or spatialized sound environments from a techno-agnostic perspective. How is legibility maintained as spaces of presentation change technologically and dimensionally?

The Ground Screams To Whisper has been presented at DoK Leipzig, New Images, PlayTopia, Games For Change, Unwrap Festival, Black Theatre Workshop, MUTEK, 4th Space, among others.

The project is produced by Maison Constellation and Akoia & Company in association with La Perle Noire Immersive and in collaboration with Feminist Media Studio, Milieux Institute-T.A.G, Lab 148, 4th Space, and DAE-University of Kortrijk.

Support provided by Canada Council for the Arts and Women Win Onside Gaming Fund as well as a residency at La SAT.

In the second week of the residency, please enquire about times to drop in and see the project!