About Nami Weatherby
(she/her) – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Sound artist/musician, multimedia producer, creative researcher. Hosted by The Music Center.
Nami is a musician/sound artist, multimedia producer, and creative researcher whose work considers relationships between the fluid circulation of stories, social imagination, and survival in contexts of asymmetrical power. She is interested in exploring the potential of aurality to displace the distortive visual frame and articulate an alternative, multiplicitous sense of self and place. Her multimedia sound installation they never told us these things has been exhibited in New York, Seoul, and Kyoto and illuminates the under-considered intimacies between peoples touched by a global network of nuclear violence. The piece synthesizes aurality, visuality, and movement in ways that—like radiation itself—are boundless and diffuse, making audible relationalities that exist beyond the material.
As a creative researcher and producing fellow in Digital Innovation at The Music Center, Nami collaborated with Kamal Sinclair to develop the Black Bar Social, a monthly immersive experience and speakeasy-style social gathering designed to spark public imagination and catalyze conversations about the future of culture in LA. The price of admission is simply to receive a question from the provocateur of the evening. An artist, culture-maker, or community partner installs a creative immersive experience that renders glimpsable cutting-edge innovations of our time in science, technology, culture, social movements, and the possibility of greater well-being. It is a place to socialize ideas, make decisions, and nurture relationships that bring them to life. As part of a more expansive creative archive, Nami collaborates with filmmaker Janice Duncan on an experimental podcast centering conversations with the provocateur and attendees of the Black Bar Social.