X Avant: XVI: Screening and discussion with Alanna Stuart (pka PYNE)

Name: X Avant: XVI: Screening and discussion with Alanna Stuart (pka PYNE)
Start: 2026-06-05T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Falkenbergsgatan 4A, SE-214 24 Malmö, Sverige

Schedule

Fri, 05 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Falkenbergsgatan 4A, SE-214 24 Malmö, Sverige | Malmö, SN

Screening and discussion with Alanna Stuart (pka PYNE) presented by Dialekt in collaboration with Black Archives Sweden.
Friday June 5, 2026
Doors at 18:00, event starts at 18:30.
Black Archives Sweden, Falkenbergsgatan 4A, Malmö
Free to attend!
X Avant: Reasoning is a live, docu-concert film by Caribbean-Canadian music artist, producer, and scholar Alanna Stuart (pka PYNE). In it, she performs early demos from her Femmehall practice–a feminine approach to dancehall music production and performance. As a sound, Femmehall merges heavy sub bass, gospel-inflected vocals, and the rhythmic legacy of 90s dancehall. The film features a raw, stripped back solo set that lays bare the tenets of her music-making process itself—negotiating space between emotive voice, hard kick drums, and improvised body gestures, and using diasporic, Black feminist experimentation to stretch the bounds of dancehall’s “anything goes” ethos. Interspersed with the music is documentary footage from her first-ever trip to Jamaica, her father’s home country. We witness PYNE meeting her mentors, the iconic rhythm duo Sly & Robbie, freestyling in sound system yards, and connecting with chosen family. Through sung and narrated voice, PYNE presents a cinematic metaphor for her journey exploring and developing her distinct musical and personal Femmehall identity from a place of inbetweenness.
Following her performance, Stuart invites us to engage in a collective reflection by sharing who or what came to mind during her performance. Stuart expresses her ongoing research into Femmehall as both a musical and spatial practice. Stuart’s work asks what happens when her selves—Black, woman, Jamaican, Canadian, artist, technician—are moved from the margins to the centre? What happens to the music? What happens to the music space? And how can she unbother (maintain a sense of agency in) her body in the presence of others? Stuart is exploring this by designing and building a Femmehall music studio prototype–a music production studio guided by dancehall’s history of unruly uses of technology and a Black feminist care ethic, as well as her broader interest in architecture and diasporic cultural placemaking. In performance and research, Stuart conveys a multifaceted identity specific to Toronto’s Jamaican diaspora—rooted, while still forming itself.
Read more about PYNE - https://pynesound.com/
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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.