Christelle Oyiri is a Paris-based artist whose work weaves together music, moving image, performance and sculpture into speculative cartographies of identity and power. Also known under her music alias CRYSTALLMESS, she mobilises the languages of subculture to interrogate fractured temporalities, collective memory, and the psychic aftershocks of displacement and obliteration. Influenced by French theory of Jean Baudrillard, Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault, Oyiri creates environments that blur the boundaries between the sacred and the synthetic, the intimate and the systemic. Her work has been shown internationally. Her installation PERPETUAL REMIX premiered at Tate Modern in June 2025 as an expansive meditation on the idea of remix as a form of survival and myth making.

Brittnay L. Proctor is a writer and researcher of art, performance, popular culture, and sound/visual culture at the nexus of blackness, gender, and sexuality. She is Assistant Professor of Race and Media in the School of Media Studies at The New School (NY, NY) and the author of Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (Bloomsbury Press: 33 1/3 Series, November 2022). You can find her criticism at Cultbytes, where she is a contributing writer.