hi my name is sach hai visual artist a
musician living in Berlin present time
and here in Durham North Carolina with
the National Museum working on celestial
vessel so let's chill vessel is a piece
made from approximately 250 Red Seal RCA
victor 45s which I collected in New York
around 2006 2007 or worse in mine to
actually make the speech sister new as a
form it's representing the voyage and
basically the voyage from Africa to the
Americas the Caribbean the USA the
record and music have been so very very
important within the African Diaspora
the way that in fact through music the
culture was held together I guess you
know what what keeps me going on many
ways is the is the ending endless
possibilities and the discovery of new
material to work with and the fact that
I'm constantly in sort of like research
mode in so far as like you know these
issues pertaining to the African
Diaspora and these issues of being a
hybrid of being biracial of dealing of
dealing with this I need to create it's
just sort of like place
expulsion I have to get it out because I
just feel that this is this flow as if
it flows in me and I have to let it flow
out I grow I was born and brought up in
the I was born in the fifties bassist
he's born in London to an African
Jamaican father and the white english
mother from manchester my father from
kingston beyond all of these issues that
i'm constantly investigating in my work
about class and race and identity
politics there's always this hope of a
utopian planet you know and very very
spiritual existence and being I love
beauty i love beautiful things and i
love the challenge of of coming up with
an idea and maybe not having the
expertise and being able to delegate i
think i've become a master delegator
actually there's so many materials out
there that I just don't know about but
there's experts out there that do so i
can just like get on a telephone and
call them up and say hey how can i do
this and then that way the work becomes
limitless you know it's just totally
unlimited in this and that's what's
really really exciting I feel at home
being surrounded by my African sculpture
but then I go to Vienna and i have i
have a total relationship with with
baroque and Rococo and same goes on with
music i mean i love to sit down and
listen to Mozart's gluten hopkin shadows
and then you know turn on kind of brew
or bitch improve so it's my life is just
like one big hybrid states in any way