ALL POWER EMANATES FROM THE LAND
Live audiovisual performance
ALL POWER EMANATES FROM THE LAND is a live audiovisual performance expanding on the soundscape made for Jessica Ashman’s exhibition ‘Those That Do Not Smile Will Kill Me’, at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery - which came out of her research within the biology and botany collections. Through doom metal, punk, folk song, field recordings, sound design and animation, the trio of Jessica, Auclair and Richard Phoenix perform a visceral energetic song cycle dedicated to the different plants central to the lives of enslaved African Jamaicans and offers an imagining otherwise to the trauma and violence of the botanical colonialism within the archives.
Jessica Ashman: voice, electric guitar, percussion, samples, animation
Auclair: voice, drumkit, percussion
Richard Phoenix: drumkit and electric bass
Trailer of our live performance at Supernormal Festival 2025