“Kaleigh Wilder and Ben Hall are engaged in a process of diasporic excavation. The central preoccupations of this process is understanding what languages have been lost/erased and how reconstituting pieces of these languages, collapsing them, in the present tense re-places ancestral understanding. For their performance as part of Option at Experimental Sound Studio wilder/hall will be using Arthur Jafa's concept of material expressivity and how there was an inability to bring over sculpture and painting and icons, ‘but we could carry songs.  That's our nervous system.’”