Vamba Bility

Index note n.17

Track 8 again
Movement through
Between here and somewhere
Infinite speed it feels
Earth tones
Red oak it seems
The walls reflect within again
Station came and left
Tweed texture against
Weight of the luggage this time
Between here
Red lines on the façade of it all
The lights may be on space
Noise of the soil is thicker it feels
And again this track
The weight echoes here
Palm oil was moving through it all this time
The tunnels are never ending
Dark roast this time again
Here we are
This station is.

A live set by artist Vamba Bility.

Tobi Kassim was born in Ibadan, Nigeria and currently lives in New Haven, CT testing the tensile strength of a long sentence. His work has been supported by a Stadler Center Undergraduate fellowship and an Undocupoets fellowship. He won Yale University’s Sean T. Lannan poetry prize. His poems have been published in The Volta, The Brooklyn Review, The Hampden Sydney Poetry Review, Zocalo Public Square, and elsewhere.

Kieran Lally is an improvisor, guitarist and musician based in Conway, MA. He is a founding member of the experimental rock group, Horse Spirit Penetrates. His music has been heard at DIY and experimental music venues and events throughout the United States over the past 20 years.

Halsey Rodman is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY working across multiple media including patch programming of modular synthesizer systems. Exhibitions and projects include “Gradually/We Become Aware/Of A Hum In The Room” at High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, CA; “Towards the Possibility of Existing in Three Places at Once” at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, OR; and a solo presentation at the biennial “Portugal Arte 10” in Lisbon, Portugal.

Ang Ziqi Zhang (b. 1994, Brampton Ontario) is a painter and DJ currently based between New Haven, CT and Brooklyn, NY. Previous exhibition venues include Produce Model Gallery and Good Weather in Chicago, Each Modern in Taipei, Taiwan, and Fonda in Leipzig, Germany. They are co-founder and resident DJ of the Queer AAPI-focused party series AYI AYI.