The Sea Works At Night w/ Tectonic Movement

This radio show is Tectonic Movement’s first public sharing. It aims to document the collective’s work that circulates around events of loss, shared grief and collective survival. Since 2025, the collective has cultivated Grief Circles to face pain together. How do we make sense of the losses we experience? Where does our grief guide us to? Tectonic Movement tends to grief as a method to imagine other ways of being in the world.

The show includes interviews with a community in Agavedzi, Ghana, that has been affected by tidal waves and land loss since 2013. The show features an in-depth-conversation with Andrea Krolo, a choreographer based in Stuttgart who has taken part in Tectonic Movement’s Grief Circles since the very beginning.

Tectonic Movement (Stuttgart/ Accra) is a collective of art and community workers: Elikem Akpalu, Kenneth Boa-Amponsem, Nana Boahene and Toni Böckle. How do we relate to each other? How do we work across continents? How do we share this search? These questions are the heart of Tectonic Movement’s work. In the radio show “The Sea Works At Night”, Tectonic Movement is opening up about their reSearch on the entanglement of ecocide and genocide.

Tectonic Movement is repeatedly funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart and takes part in the Artists’ Contacts Program from @ifa.de. Dearest thanks to all partners, collaborators and supporters, you know who you are.

Creative Direction, Photo and Artwork © Toni Böckle & Elikem Akpalu, 2025.
The image shows destroyed houses and graves in Agavedzi, Ghana, after a tidal wave earlier this year.

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• Toni Böckle & Elikem Akpalu, 2025

Links

• instagram.com/tectonicmovement_collective