Indigenous knowledge as ecological care. Perspective on climate from African Mythology. Can a personified and moralized depiction of nature reform and reframe the understanding of ecological risk and resilience? I am interested in the narratives of power designed around water systems, particularly the depictions of water bodies and events with spiritual and moral significance. In this episode, I share insight into the theology of water referenced in oral African literature, presenting my understanding of the systems of faith around water, where songs are communal records of interactions with the environment over time.

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.