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Black Pasifika: Deep Sea Protocols with Neema Githere and Conversation with Dr. Gilbert Githere
July 27th, 2025 at LACMA
Join writer and relational architect Neema Githere as they contextualize “Oceanic Refractions” across Melanesia—a region whose protocols embody and insist upon repair – in this intergenerational program exploring the links between climate crisis and technology.
Neema Githere will be in conversation with their grandfather, Dr. Gilbert Githere, who founded the Mombasa-Honolulu Sister City society in 2000. The two will discuss deep sea protocols and the consequences of technological accelerationism on sea-stewarding peoples from the Swahili coast to Melanesia.
Part of a series in connection with Imagining Black Diasporas that presents video works, in-person discussions, and somatic participations to tap into the contemporary resonances of the Black diaspora.
Co-presented by the William Grant Still Arts Center
Bio:
Neema Githere is a writer, artist, and relational architect whose work explores love and indigeneity amidst algorithmic debris. Neema’s curatorial and research practice examines the digital diaspora and networked repair through cyber-cartography, with a focus on Afropresentism – an inquiry into how descendents of exile can invoke somatic attunement amidst systematised algorithmic displacement. Her work is anchored in reindigenization through participatory and socially engaged formats. Having dreamt themselves into the world via the internet from an early age, Neema’s work prototypes relationality-as-art through experiments that span curation, community organizing, social design, travel, and image-making. Neema has been building a research-based embodiment practice since 2016; beginning with a project entitled #digitaldiaspora – inspired by Anna Everett’s Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace (SUNY Press, 2009) – which traveled to over 20 countries exploring how Afrodiasporic creatives were articulating new identities on- and offline.
Black Pasifika: Deep Sea Protocols with Neema Githere and Conversation with Dr. Gilbert Githere
July 27th, 2025 at LACMA
Join writer and relational architect Neema Githere as they contextualize “Oceanic Refractions” across Melanesia—a region whose protocols embody and insist upon repair – in this intergenerational program exploring the links between climate crisis and technology.
Neema Githere will be in conversation with their grandfather, Dr. Gilbert Githere, who founded the Mombasa-Honolulu Sister City society in 2000. The two will discuss deep sea protocols and the consequences of technological accelerationism on sea-stewarding peoples from the Swahili coast to Melanesia.
Part of a series in connection with Imagining Black Diasporas that presents video works, in-person discussions, and somatic participations to tap into the contemporary resonances of the Black diaspora.
Co-presented by the William Grant Still Arts Center
Bio:
Neema Githere is a writer, artist, and relational architect whose work explores love and indigeneity amidst algorithmic debris. Neema’s curatorial and research practice examines the digital diaspora and networked repair through cyber-cartography, with a focus on Afropresentism – an inquiry into how descendents of exile can invoke somatic attunement amidst systematised algorithmic displacement. Her work is anchored in reindigenization through participatory and socially engaged formats. Having dreamt themselves into the world via the internet from an early age, Neema’s work prototypes relationality-as-art through experiments that span curation, community organizing, social design, travel, and image-making. Neema has been building a research-based embodiment practice since 2016; beginning with a project entitled #digitaldiaspora – inspired by Anna Everett’s Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace (SUNY Press, 2009) – which traveled to over 20 countries exploring how Afrodiasporic creatives were articulating new identities on- and offline.
