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SA Smythe SA Smythe is a blktrans nonbinary theorist, multi-instrumentalist, transmedia storyteller, and educator currently based in Tkaronto and Rome. Smythe’s antecartographic practice conjures black belonging and the thrival of our relations beyond every border. They weave blktrans poetics, performance, interactive sculptures, sound composition, found footage/archival ephemera. Smythe was 2023-24 MacDowell Fellow in Multimedia Installation; Winter 2024 artist (composer)-in-residence at the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts; Summer 2024 artist-in-residence at Villa Lena in Tuscany; and recipient of the 2022 Rome Prize for Modern Italian Studies. Together with Autumn Knight, Smythe is 1/2 of multiscalar performance collective THEYFXRST. Smythe is associate professor of “Black Studies & the Archive” and Director for the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis, a multidisciplinary research hub and creative atelier. [120 words]

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