(ọrB) ọmọlolú Refilwe BABÁTÚNDÉ (ọrB) is an educator, african surrealist documentarian, blx* sonic (site/cite/sight), blx womxn geographer AND performance artist. A diasporix daughter of blx Southern migration shx is in constant practice, reverence and searching for blx sounds in all it’s haptic, visual, sonic, strategic, mobile, logical mutations. Using image, video, prose and sound shx attempts to create a divine glimmer of blx relief, a brief moment of sanctuary for folx to come home into. A lifelong student of blx* sound, in hxr music shx works with looping and explores the power of repetition and mantra making to propel hxrself and those who listen to hxr sounds into a deepenIN of their BE(come)IN. Shx received the inaugural Mexican Summer Recording Studio Residency in July 2022 and has performed/shown work at Leslie Loham Museum of Art, Northstar Durham, The New Museum, SPACES (Cleveland), and many intentional DIY venues. In October 2020 shx released hxr first EP “laiii 222 rest ooo: blx ancestral sonix salves” on Don Giovanni Records and hxr forthcoming debut mixtape ọrBOUT!!! will BE self-released in 2023.

Welcome to my (site/cite/sight). If you support my work please get in contact and let’s talk. it is important that we celebrate ROCKs in the SKIII in their lives. My email is orbabatunde@gmail.com and I am developing pages on this site to reflect my pedagogical praxis, ongoIN research and lecture/knowledge activation offerINs. I hope you reach out!

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(ọrB) ọmọlolú Refilwe BABÁTÚNDÉ (ọrB)

*blx is a spatial/temporal device I use that locates folx outside of the confines and dispossession of the production of blackness in a western modern conceptualization of the “term”. “blx” roots those who choose -- and are able -- into the continual, other, before/after/now and through process of our BE(come)IN and beIN...