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Special Series: A Belief In Water - Episode 3: On Indigenous Knowledge

Jun 26, 2026: 4:30 pm - 5pm
A Belief In Water - Episode 3: On Indigenous Knowledge

A Belief In Water - Episode 3: On Indigenous Knowledge. Image courtesy of the artist.

A Belief in Water, Hakeem Adam

A Belief in Water, Hakeem Adam. Image courtesy of the artist.

Hakeem Adam Portrait Image.

Hakeem Adam Portrait Image.. Image courtesy of the artist.

Faith-based ecology among oral narrative cultures. Indigenous knowledge and sonic forms. In this episode, I reflect on the structure of knowledge on local ecology as embodied by sound devices like song and lyrical storytelling.

A Belief In Water is an audio essay series reflecting on methods and techniques for climate monitoring emerging from research into African theology on water and mythology surrounding weather events such as rain making. Through sound as electroacoustic composition and text, the work over three episodes considers the place and value of indigenous knowledge of climate monitoring in today's warming earth. The work reconciles our relationship with nature through the lens of localized weather monitoring practices that situate the body as the primary instrument.

Hakeem Adam is an artist unravelling the triumph of human spirit through narrative-based scholarly methodology and artist research. His work across sound, sculpture, software and text confronts identity, knowledge production and power as they mutate through our evolving experience of technology and possibility. His durational research practice contemplates meaning and structure through systemic and aesthetic reconfigurations of expression—mutating forms as pathways towards healing.