First shown in 2016 at KunstHaus KuLe, "No Main Switch" uses audio samples from publicly available online lectures and interviews with the world-making, visionary scholars Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Saidiya Hartman, and Alexander Weheliye. As Ruth Wilson Gilmore says, "analysis and dismantling or reconfiguring a system are inseparable activities. We have to analyze to make the change."
The work "No Main Switch" is not a piece, but more of a format or citational practice - bringing together the language of these scholars in a sort of sonic bibliography, the work starts out as a DJ-like collage featuring quotes and sampled songs, and then turns into an improvisational DJ set with music being mixed live.