Hydra Decapita, 2010

The new film by the Otolith Group investigates in the imagined space of the Detroit-based electronic music duo Drexciya (1993- 2002). Their music operated as the vehicle for the creation of a myth of a neo-Atlantis, a place peopled by the sub-aquatic descendants of drowned slaves. The film approaches this synthetic mythology in which the spectrum of capital might be rendered audible and visible. Instead of illustrating the spectres of capital, the film assembles a sense of poetic relationships, imagery that seeks to stand-in for the evidence of things not seen.

The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun, A,njalika Sagar)

Kodwo Eshun 1967, London (UK). Anjalika Sagar 1968, London (UK). Both live and work in London. The Otolith Group was founded in 2002 by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun. The Group works with media archives, histories of futurity and the legacies of non-alignment. The Group's artistic work explores moving image, sound, text and curatorial practice and functions as a platform for discussion on contemporary artistic production. Their work has been included in many group exhibitions and biennials including The 29th Sao Paolo Biennal (2010), Universal Code, Power Plant, Toronto, (2009), Translocalmotion: The 7th Shanghai Bienniale (2008), Between the Images, Imaginable Experiences for Future Memories, IASPIS, Stockholm,(2008) documenta XII (2007), New British Art: Tate Triennial (2006), The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society: The 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (2006) and Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennal of Photography and Video, New York (2006)