The Otolith Group was founded by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun in London in 2002 where they are based.
Throughout their career they have produced research based and distinct cosmogenies that involve seeing and listening across media and build and begin with the cinemas and musics produced and influenced by the worlds and histories of the global majority.
They have worked conceptually with intertemporality and interscalarity in their moving image works, drawing from collaborations with artists writers poets and composers such as Chris Marker, Julius Eastman, Etel Adnan, Elaine Mitchener, Jean Genet and many others.
Events, musics, photographic archives, movements, compositions, theories, performances, vocalities, translated in text, sound and in moving and non-moving images are woven, improvised and pursued as an ongoing experiment with the film essay.
The name 'Otolith' originates from an early art work titled 'Otolith (2003)'. This work involved an in-depth encounter with Zero Gravity at the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City near Moscow and provided us with a conceptual and scientific thought-form that could help metabolize and spatialize the cosmologies of our time.
For TOG the calcium carbonate microcrystals of the otolith crystals that sit within the inner ear, operate as a kind of black box or a memory recorder or as agravic sensors that support withholding intention, gauging impact, measuring expectation and calculating discrepancy.
The Otolith Group's work has been exhibited internationally and this site is an archive of their past, current and future work.