Allen‑Golder Carpenter is a gender-nonconforming interdisciplinary artist, designer, poet, author, and activist. Drawing from rap culture, Black radical tradition, found objects and media, Carpenter’s work interrogates memory, systemic violence, and cultural erasure—especially as experienced by Black communities in the United States.
Often taking form as immersive installations involving objects, video, sound, and performance, Carpenter’s work explores cycles of life, death, and reincarnation as a framework for thinking through history and the burden of its preservation. Recent projects have involved restructuring space through the construction of image laden fencing throughout galleries, memorializing and celebrating the life of Maryland drill rapper Goonew, transforming a gallery into a prison cell in which Carpenter lived for 72 hours, and a recent performance and screening at Schinkel Pavillion presenting a meditation on memory, transformation, and the instability of historical perspective. Carpenter’s work is layered and complex, forging paths through time and geography.
Carpenter’s musical pursuits, under the moniker Sojourn, take shape as experimental noise, hip-hop, rap, clarinet, and saxophone jazz recordings. For Carpenter, jazz is not only a musical genre but a historical medium of Black self-empowerment, improvisation, and resistance.
Richie Culver is a British artist and musician whose practice moves fluidly between visual work and sound. Conceiving of music as an extension of his visual language, Culver creates emotionally charged, machine-driven compositions that carry the same raw immediacy as his paintings and installations. His collaborations with Moor Mother, Billy Woods, Blackhaine, Rainy Miller, Space Afrika, and Mark Leckey have become central to this process, situating him in conversation with some of the most radical voices in contemporary art and experimental music.
Operating under the alias Quiet Husband, Culver channels his practice into the subterranean worlds of techno and noise. This project pushes his sound into harsher, more physical territories, marked by industrial textures and a visceral energy that translates powerfully in live settings. Performances at Berghain, Tresor, and Berlin Atonal have cemented Quiet Husband as a vehicle for Culver to explore the outer edges of club culture while retaining the emotional intensity that defines his broader artistic output.
