Based in Paris banlieues, CHRISTELLE OYIRI is a DJ, producer, freelance sound designer and contributes to platforms including i-D, Guardian, Noisey, Complex UK, Dazed & Confused, M le Magazine du Monde, NON Quarterly.
When she gets behind the desks and lets her hair down, she goes by the name of CRYSTALLMESS, and delves into fertile subcultures and corners of the past in her show « Unleashed » on Radar Radio.
Influenced by the work of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit of the University of Warwick, her multidisciplinary practice allows her to tackle the subjects of experimental futurisms, digital culture, representation and the black diaspora.
She participated in « Revolutionary Beauty » panel at ICA Singapore (2016), organized « Mardi Gras » (in partnership with Rinse France) at Museum Of Quai de Branly, which focused on carnival culture in the french west indies and its political substructure in 2017. The same year, she talked about black virality at « Post-Internet dances » and took part in Cyberafrofeminisms at La Gaité Lyrique.