Anni entered the year with an interest in exploring ways of decolonising knowledge at a personal level, having previously performed and facilitated workshops around the subject with the collective Sorryyoufeeluncomfortable. From researching the frameworks of Afrofuturism and other diasporic futurisms to the cinematic work of Soviet-Armenian director Sergei Parajanov, she developed an engagement with ritual and magic as a practice of healing.

During her time at Open School East, Anni organised a number of talks and workshops, inviting critical makers and thinkers such as Sheaf & Barley, Collective Creativity, and Voices That Shake, who are concerned with the decolonisation of England through magic, the politics of healing, and the structures that dominate the art world.

Anni collaborated with fellow associate Joel Sines to hold An Endless Suddenness: Thinking with music that resists resistance, a public workshop and listening session with theorist and poet Fred Moten and The Otolith Collective of Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun. The event facilitated the practice of “thinking with music as a mode of black study”.