TETTEY
NARTEY
How do we register the strange?
The title draws from Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes, calling on her reflections on the note as a form of Black thought, memory, and the everyday as sites of Black knowledge-making. Here, the note is both sound and thought, where strangeness itself becomes a register and reflects a different epistemology, where calibration is not empirical or absolute but felt.
Strangeness emerges at the edge of familiarity, when something sits just outside our frame of reference and disrupts the canon of received formalities. Strange Notes takes the form of a balafon, composed of steel bars suspended over ceramic vessels. Bar to vessel, hand to material, room to listener. The work chooses relation over measure. Strange notes are found.
2025