Olani Ewunnet is an urban designer, researcher and sound artist living in Berlin. She is interested in micro-historical research and the inter & intra border signifiers of African sonics, urbanism and design typologies. Her most recent score for Ezra Wube’s 2018 stop-action animation titled Hidirtna/Sisters was first presented at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Prizm Art Fair and later École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges. In her 2017 soundscape, titled azmari X kikuyu, Ewunnet researched sonic resistance in urban Ethiopia, composing a mix of vocal loops alongside sounds banned by the Derg regime in the aftermath of Ethiopia’s 1974 revolution. She currently works at Kéré Architecture / Kéré Foundation, and is the founder of the Selamawi Project, a traditional instrument construction program in Addis Ababa which went on to be housed as a full-enrollment program at a local youth arts non-profit. At SAVVY Contemporary, she works on the ongoing Creative Europe project with BOZAR titled DisOthering: Beyond Afropolitan and Other Labels.