Buena Onda Collective

HowDoYouSayYamInAfrican? (YAMS)is a collective of 38 mostly Black, mostly Queer artists, poets and musicians from across the globe create work that looks to dismantle white supremacy through multimedia activism.






TheWayBlackMachine is a video database and installation of multi-channel video displays protests, arrests, tweets, cartoons, news footage, status updates, and 3D graphics. This ever growing work expands notions of communal and public citizenship, the shooting death of Michael Brown (a young, Black, unarmed man) by Darren Wilson (a white police officer) in Ferguson, Missouri, takes center stage in this video installation.


VIDEO LINK: CRYSTAL CITY