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Shamica Ruddock

Shamica Ruddock is an artist and arts educator working predominantly across text, sound and moving image. With a background in cultural heritage, specifically archive and community engagement, much of this experience has shaped their artistic practice. Shamica is guided by an interest in dynamics of cultural hybridity and new subjectivities, in particular how they operate as modes of production, and can inform and alter methods of enquiry.

Current research topics include Black technopoetics, sonic fictions, puppetry and hauntology. Shamica is particularly interested in the ways in which the Black diaspora is engaged and explored through sound, where sound becomes a form of narrativising with its own unified system of signifiers.

[Image: Shamica Ruddock, It Is What It Is]

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Shamica has been researching our PERIODICALS collection, alongside recordings in our oral history collection - particularly ‘Decks and Dialogue’ and the oral histories of Elimu Carnival Band. For more information about accessing Black Cultural Archives collections, please visit blackculturalarchives.org/collections