I am Hyperion Çaca Yvaire, a Sea Kréyòl and Atakapa Ishak territorial practice design-researcher, a sovereign poet, and artist-kinmaker pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts at SMFA @ Tufts. My work explores the afterlives of collision as it relates to sensory sovereignty through administrative, legislative, and wave phenomena. As a researcher, I am interested in the matter resulting from the collision of materials, practices, and claims. When this matter is spatial and tangible, I refer to it as a ruin, when it is spatial and intangible, I refer to it as an afterlife. As an artist, I am interested in what material effect is possible when a collective practice of alternative claim making is brought to a planetary scale.

Building upon previous fugitive study, interpretations of movement work, and focuses on the ecologies that influence the culture of Terraforming workers. Currently, I am preparing a book about artistic and embodied forms of fugitive planning and rematriation, to advance work that seeks to undo the erasure and slow violence of forced migration.

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