Moira Salt

multimedia artist, using film and sound, performance, found objects, printmaking, and installations.
      practice looks at B/black diasporas, particularly women, and their connection to memory, myth, and land.    
            uses geology, fiction and technology to imagine possible futures and their necessary histories, which cast a critical eye on capitalism and environmental consumption.    
                tries to imagine what may have been forgotten and where we (as a global community) might be going.                        






where the restless ocean pounds
Bowling Harbour, 2021
Commissioned by Sustrans
with support from Transport Scotland

Performances: 
dreams of salt (and other ghosts) (I, II, and III)


 A sculptural installation and set of performances on diasporic experience, hauntings of Slavery, and the Black female body. The series of polyphonic spoken word performances used ritual in order to retrieve and re-embody memory; giving space for the ghosts (past, present and future) to speak. 

The sculpture processes Atlantic drift wood with metaphors for the treatment for the African slaves being sold, and preparation of ships of the same period. Soot, oil, and rope.

The performances draw inspiration from Matana Roberts’ jazz album Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, with contributing voices from Black Feminist writers and poets.