SITE is a one-night contemporary art festival transforming the 12-acre Goat Farm into a vast, living exhibition. Last year’s debut was described by Art Papers as “a clear triumph.”

This year promises monumental art installations, live performances, exhibitions, and open studios—exploring “site” in all its forms: physical, digital, temporal, perceptual, and site-specific.

OPARAH’s newest project, Somatiq Black: Neci, marks a deepening of her commitment to art as a site of communal healing. Somatiq Black is a healing apparatus—a sculptural and sonic installation designed to engage the nervous system of Black women through rhythmic physical objects and immersive audio. It invokes what Oparah refers to as “recessive memory”: ancestral and embodied knowings that remain buried beneath survival but can be reawakened through sound, ritual, and presence.

The subtitle “Neci” comes from the commonly used Black Southern term of endearment for a niece. In this context, the voice of healing arrives through the archetype of the auntie—one who has lived, seen, endured, and now speaks with conviction. The auntie figure carries generational knowledge and authority. She doesn't ask to be heard—she expects it. And her message is simple: You are loved.

Through hand-braided hair, beaded strands, lullabies, found footage, and EFT tapping sequences, Neci becomes a somatic archive—a tender, disruptive, and necessary offering to Black women. It honors the survival modalities born from both oppression and joy, affirming the body not just as a site of trauma, but as a wellspring of recovery.

Olamma Oparah is an Atlanta-based writer, director, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the interior worlds of Black women through sound, image, and embodied ritual. A native of the American South and of Igbo and Afro-Antillian descent, Oparah’s film and installation practice seeks to deconstruct mainstream representations of Blackness while affirming ancestral wisdoms, intuitive memory, and emotional inheritance