Projects
Sister Collective
Sister Collective (Siobhain Ma & Cass Ezeji) is a creative collective that explores the experiences and challenges facing mixed-race Scottish women. Ezeji and Ma are childhood friends and share respective backgrounds in music and sound art. ‘Sister' sees the pair turn their attention to their experiences growing up mixed-race in Glasgow. Their work focuses on microaggressions encountered by biracial women along with questions of identity and establishing a connection with their respective fatherlands (Nigeria, Hong Kong, Ireland and Scotland) from a distance.
Commissioned by Radiophrenia, 'Hotline' was a live-to-broadcast performance at the Centre of Contemporary Art combining soundbites, poetry and pre-recorded interviews with young mixed-race women in Glasgow to explore the ‘mixed experience’ in Scotland. It was created to work in a live environment with a present audience and also for an audience of listeners at home.
‘Hotline’ has also been performed at Glasgow Women's Library as part of Herland curated by Collect:if.
In 2017 Sister facilitated workshops for Radiophrenia on experimental radio and sound-making with the 16+ program at Glasgow Clyde College, a unique programme supporting unaccompanied young asylum seekers and refugees from a range of backgrounds and countries. The 2017-2018 class, with an age range of 16-19, came together with Sister to produce their own radio work for Radiophrenia, inspired by and featuring sounds of their home countries and what they hear in their new home of Glasgow. Along with Radiophrenia the group also worked with Media Co-op to document the project. The final piece WE ARE THE SAME, WE ARE THE WORLD was broadcast on Radiophrenia on November 9th 2017.
Features & Collaborations
Photo by Matthew Arthur Williams
Maud Sulter Live Programme: Poetry in Motion - A poetry reading engaging with the work and legacy of Scottish-Ghanian artist Maud Sulter. Reading alongside artists Tako Taal and Titilayo Farukoye, Cass forms a collective dialogue with the exhibition, responding to works including My Father’s Home (1996) and Alba Sonnets (1995). Tramway, Glasgow, 2025
Black Oot Here and There Exhibition: An online exhibition focused on the experiences and reflections of artists from the African & Caribbean diaspora in Scotland and Wales. Contributing artists include Aurora Trinity Collective, Najma Hussein Abubakar, Layla-Roxanne Hill, Cesca Sobande, Kadi Johnson, Kyrstal S. Lowe, and Nathan Somevi. Cass’s offering is a short story centered on the intertwined lives of best friends Corinne and Tiwa, The Greatest (In progress manuscript). Black Oot Here & There, 2024
What a Feeling Act I - A new project by Christian Noelle Charles. Cass Ezeji features in a unique presentation of screenprints, alongside artists Alberta Whittle, Mele Forbes Broomes, and Saoirse Amira Anis. An exploration project discussing the topics of racial identity, inequality, care, and love through the Black Feminine Lens. Edinburgh Print Makers, 2023
Ghost Tunes Artist Residency - A collaborative music project between Scottish and Australian artists exploring language and land. This was the project's second iteration, culminating in a group show at Freemantle Public Arts Space, Perth Australia. British Council & Australia Council for the Arts, 2023
Heal & Harrow Podcast - A podcast by Rachel Newton & Lauren MacColl with writer Mairi Kidd. They discuss the women that inspired their acclaimed album. Cass Ezeji narrates Corp-crèadha (Figure of Clay), 2023
Trusadh: Na 20an - Documentary for BBC Alba with Mac TV. Project researcher and presenter, Cass Ezeji. Featuring interviews with Drag artist Purina Alpha and Gaelic enthusiasts Oisean Lauren & The Cooksmith. BBC Alba, 2023.
Ghost Tunes - Collaborative music project between Scottish and Australian artists exploring language and landscapes. Includes concept album, written publication, and installation. Commissioned as part of Counterflows Festival, 2022.
A/am/ams- A new text by Rufus Isabel Elliot that imagines a new mouthful-of-sand future language of the North West Highlands, spanning Older Scots and Middle English. Specially commissioned Gaelic interpretation of the text, by Cass Ezeji. Atlas Arts, 2021.
Teneu - Collaborative audio work by Rosie’s Disobedient Press. Text by Adrien Howard & Lisette May Monroe with sounds by Sean Patrick Campbell & David Scott, performance & Gaelic translation by Cass Ezeji. Glasgow International, 2021.
HYPNAGOGIA GLOSSOLALIA - visual artist and curator Sekai Macheche responds to Edwin Morgan’s poetry in celebration of The Edwin Morgan Centenary. Gaelic narration by Cass Ezeji, 2021.
HOTLINE – 0808-196-8619 - created by Produced Moon, Meghan Tyler, and Nima Séne. Cass Ezeji & Alicia Matthews play the role of ‘The All-Powerful Moon Bitch’. Tron Theatre, 2021.
PR 4 US - a short film by Christian Noelle Charles and Matthew Arthur Williams. Narration by Cass Ezeji & Adebusola Ramsey, featuring Sekai Macheche. LUX Scotland, BBC Arts, and Creative Scotland as part of Now & Next, 2019.
Studwork - a video and sculptural installation by artist Winnie Herbstein. Narrated by Cass Ezeji, the work was shown as part of the Glasgow International program (2018) and has continued to be exhibited widely. It was acquired by Glasgow Museums as part of their permanent collection in 2019.
Buaireas anns an Uisge - A play in development written and directed by playwright Elspeth Turner. Starring Natali McLeary & Cass Ezeji, Supported by the National Theatre of Scotland through the Starter for Ten Programme, 2016.
A Catalogue of Poses - A play written and performed by Evan Ifeyoka. Co-performance with Cass Ezeji Transmission, 2016.