My experience navigating the world of digital collections… A few tips to navigating archives:
Start off with no assumptions
Documentation from The Edenic Zone, an immersive outdoor experience manifesting a portal of rest and beauty as imagined by Zona Baari in collaboration with Casa de Coco.
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One person would have a hard time trying to save the world, but they can offer a shift in vibration within the micro to positively affect the macro. My belief is there exists many realities on this planet and ultimately varying frequencies we may step in and out of.
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Bone – as what is beneath the surface of self. Exists in us all, and what’s behind the mask of skin. The great equalizer. A physical resemblance of our own undeniable truth and vulnerability.
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Through the process of collecting these pieces, I noticed myself tapping back into familial practices to take care of oneself. These acts were so deeply embedded into everyday life that I did not question it or even acknowledge it as a practice.
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With the understanding that channeling joy is a true act of vulnerability, we voluntarily give ourselves to the motion of falling. Equipped with protection, we learn how to fall so that we know how to collapse gracefully then rise again.
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La Limpieza, which translates to “cleaning” or “cleanse,” is one of three short films that exists under the project, How to Turn Poison Into a Meal. It consists of intimate moments between oneself and a shared space to witness each other's movements and sounds.
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How to Turn Poison Into a Meal is the name of my Fall/Winter 2020 collection. This project is a way for me to celebrate and remember, as well as using my body as an archive, creating documentation of my ancestors and their practices of reveling in joy and resilience from a heavy existence.
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… I intend to recreate.
To photograph and film familial practices that were neither documented nor celebrated, rather, shared through word of mouth and performed together habitually…
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The American Library by Yinka Shonibare CBE is a celebration of the diversity of the American population. It aims to be an instigator of discovery and debate. On the spines of many of these books are, printed in gold, the names of people who immigrated, or whose antecedents immigrated to the United States. On other books are the names of African Americans who relocated or whose parents relocated out of the American South during the Great Migration.
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“I was inspired by lectures of Dr. Darin Waters of UNCA about “collective historical memory” and as a white Ashevillian felt like it could be a learning experience that I could pass on through this work and inspire others in my community to take a look at the rich history that is in danger of becoming forgotten as our town becomes more homogenized.”
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Mebane-based poet Jaki Shelton Green challenges us to think about community legacies, lineage, land, and ancestors in her 2019 poem, 'who will be the messenger of this land.'
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My experience navigating the world of digital collections… A few tips to navigating archives:
Start off with no assumptions
It's a little past eleven in the evening on a Monday night & I guess this felt like the best time to lay out some of my thought process so far in this residency. I am not going to sit here and talk fluff, I want to be honest. I had no idea how challenging this would feel exploring this unknown world of digital archives with a trained mind that tells me I need to envision my end goal and work backwards.
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Greensboro, NC based Scrapmettle Entertainment Group took a breast cancer awareness event in a historically Black neighborhood as an opportunity to explore this subject on stage.
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I want you take a moment and find a physical image or bring up an image in your head of your parents or grandparent. Now I want you to think about a story you were told about your family or those that came before you.
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#artmakingchange is a platform for exploring socially engaged art, including a report highlighting the distinct features of artistic practice that works with and for the benefit of communities.
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In “Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till,” Coco Fusco wrote about Open Casket, an abstracted depiction of Emmet Till in his open casket by Dana Schutz, and the widespread criticism it received while on view at the Whitney Biennial in 2017.
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