How do you map something invisible?
Hidden Currents draws from golden lionheart collier’s original body of research, The Mother Patch. This work is a reimagining of the routes of forced migration across the African diaspora- known as the Maafa, or great disaster. For centuries, European and Asian empires trafficked African lives, forcing millions across the Atlantic and beyond.
Working with community partners and archival collaborators, collier activated hundreds of field recordings, interviews, and archival audio, weaving together Candomblé devotees, New Orleans Second Line processions, Bomba dancers, ring shouts, field hollers, water drumming, family interviews, and elders speaking of Hoodoo.
August 6th, 2026 – August 27th, 2026
Every Thursday, Friday & Saturday
Doors 7:30pm; show 8:00pm
$20–$30
Pay-what-you-can tickets are available at doors for each show, on a first come, first served basis.
You are invited into a sonic world- to listen deeply, to feel in your body, to imagine alongside others.
golden lionheart collier is a self-taught transdisciplinary polymath, researcher, and sound nerd whose praxis unearths and honors diasporic wisdoms that defy static or linear narratives. Grounded in a polymathic exploration of kindred transatlantic perspectives, their research harnesses ancestral movement, performance, print media, lens-based works, sonic art, interactive facilitation, new media installation, and more. Ultimately, they are most inspired by the power of open research and the verdant fecundity where disciplines, practices, and communities overlap.
Recently, they’ve been a featured artist for Visual Arts Journal, awarded the CODEX International Biennial Research Scholarship, and are a 2025 MacDowell Fellow.
Click here to learn more about golden’s innovative practice and research.
This project is made possible in part through the generous support of the San Francisco Arts Commission.