Digital video. 6 minutes 44 seconds duration (2 minute extract). A short film exploring the polyphony of collectivity in the desires, motivations and stories that foreground the histories and present(s) of Black British sound. Collective Hum documents a collective in practice through the operation of B.O.S.S. using multiple narration, overlapping voices and the sound of group interviews, meetings and events to create a polyphonic score to soundtrack images of the ‘collective bodies, kinaesthetic experience and gestural language’ of Soundsystem culture.  Presented at the Abundance in Togetherness exhibition, Cubitt Gallery (London,2023); BLK Art Group 40th Anniversary screening, BFI London (2023); EXiS Festival (Seoul,2022); Singapore International Film Festival (2021); Reverberations: A response to the Her Noise archive, Chelsea Space (London, 2021) and The Joyous Thing 2, Outlands Festival (2020).

An immersive environment created as an expansion of their short film, Collective Hum (2019). The installation reflects and describes ways in which marginalised groups have developed methods of assembling against a background of repression and discrimination in the UK. B.O.S.S. position Soundsystem culture as a space of communal strength and encounter, where kinship is formed and reciprocated. The audio-visual installation envelops the viewer, resonating through the body, creating a club-like space of collective pleasure and healing. Presented at The Herbert Gallery and Museum (Coventry, 2021) and FACT (Liverpool, 2021).

Photograph of B.O.S.S’s Livestream Radio Day in collaboration with Hillz FM at The Herbert Gallery as part of their show for The Turner Prize. Hillz FM is a community radio station local to The Herbert Gallery, and all live streaming equipment purchased for the event was donated to Hillz FM afterwards.

An image from The Black Obsidian Vogue Ball at the Rivoli Ballroom (London, 2022), hosted in collaboration with Bambi Revlon aka Omar Jordan Phillips. Members of B.O.S.S. also installed the Soundsystem, co-produced and provided sound tech for the event. Ballroom culture originated in Harlem, New York and has since spread across the globe. Pioneered by Crystal Labeija, the Ballroom scene celebrates and prioritises LGBTQIA+ people of colour. Members of the Ballroom scene come together for competitions called ‘Balls’ in which individuals and ‘Houses’ compete in fashion, beauty, realness and performance categories for prizes. Ballroom is a safe(r) space that prioritises QTIBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Intersex, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour).