Working predominantly between sound and moving image, Shamica’s current practice is primarily concerned with speculation, fiction and folklore. Considering the ways Black diasporas are engaged and explored through sound, Shamica has been particularly interested in how black technosonic production functions as a form of speculation, narrativising and worldmaking. Through film Shamica explores Afro-Caribbean puppetry, masquerade and oral folk storytelling practices.
Shamica has completed residencies with Languid Hands in collaboration with the BCA, was a 20/21 FLAMIN Fellow, they were the eleventh Postgraduate Artist in Residence at the South London Gallery (2021-2022) and is currently a Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow researching Maroon histories in ‘The Guianas’. In 2020, she was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries.