Recent Live Performance & Sound Compositions

Get in touch to commission Smythe or collaborate with them on performances,
transmedia works, (film/media) scores, compositions, artist talks/panels, or creative workshops.

Marked for Disposal (2025)
[Vector Festival, 12th edition]
scores of rememory
⁠Memolab–ItsOK*Studio
{spirit forged} ⁠–
[The Power Plant (TO)]
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Jarina De Marco’s JELLY
[GXRLSCHOOL LA]
Difference of a Shared Spirit
[2024 Toronto Biennial of Art]
soft flux / score of scores ⁠–
[FADO Performance Centre]
proclivity n°1 – Rome 2023
[Spazio Griot / Mattatoio]
Cassils’ Etched in Light at the Washington DC National Mall
Courtney Desiree Morris’ Oñì
Ocan [Berkeley Arts Centre]
“Echoes of Care” (2025)
[Berlin, 38th transmediale]
ADSR ⁠– Birds of Passage
[BASE Milano, Italy]
ALTRIMENTI w/ Autumn Knight [Palazzino indiano arte Italy]
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Sage Ni’Ja Whitson’s
Dark Matter Cypher
Get in touch to commission Smythe or collaborate with them on performances, compositions, artist talks, or workshops.

Readings, Public Talks & Keynotes (selected)

Notes from the Twilight: Meditations on Crisis, Catastrophe & Genocide (2021) with Bedour Alagraa, Zoé Samudzi, SA Smythe, and Robin D.G. Kelley, Haymarket Books
“Black Trans Futurities Political Imaginaries in the Academy & the Arts”
Arizona State University
“Where Trans Activism and Abolition Meet,” Center for Applied Transgender Studies
Poetic Reflections on Meleko Mokgosi’s Artwork, AGYU 2022
“Undoing Borders” Trans Justice Forum, at UC Santa Cruz
Asmarina: Voices In Conversation with Director Medhin Paolos
“Accounting for Kinship,” Strike That: Seminar, VeraList Center for Art & Politics, The New School
Improvisation, Collaboration, Blacktrans Poetics, Bell Gallery Brown University
Afrophilia: Artist Talk with Frantz Brent-Harris and SA Smythe, BAND
A Poetics of Black Possibility with Moya Bailey, at C2i2
trans/BORDER/ing: Aesthetics of Disturbance, UCLA
Black Studies Summer School 2023, held at Queen’s University & internationally
Uncommon Emergency: On Invasion of Ukraine, War, Border Violence & (Un)Shared Suffering
Writing for Justice & Reclamation Museum of Latin American Art
Between the Radical Tradition & the Digital, Haymarket Books
Black Trans Intimacies, Radical Kinship Series at UC Berkeley
Fascist Paradoxes of Belonging & the Black Mediterranean, Princeton University
Birds of Passage – “Call & Response as Process” BASE Milano, w/ Mistura Allison & Sagal Farah
Genderpalooza: Visionary Blitz, 2020 Trans Day of Resilience
“Queer Approaches to Transnational Carcerality,”  Berkeley
Transnational Perspectives on the Matter of Blackness