Who are we without access to an archive of our collective memory? This three-part installation [demo] recontextualizes the archiving of Black consciousness, knowledge generation and technology as an experience occupying digital space. Language is a vessel of culture and one of the oldest forms of technology. Indigenous African writing systems are at the core of this archival experience uniting an AI data map, sonic fragments, performance, and an ancient Ethiopian architectural site of both knowledge generation and technology.
Kidus Hailesilassie is a designer, creative technologist, and world builder. With a background in architecture and speculative world-building, he is interested in ways design and film advance cultural production with a focus on developing speculative futures, histories, and archives. Kidus uses architecture and filmmaking as a storytelling medium to revisit, deconstruct, and reimagine transcontinental archives creating counter-narratives of Black consciousness in design and immersive media.
Creator:
Kidus Hailesilassie
Directed by:
Kidus Hailesilassie and Ainslee Alem Robson
Team:
Choreography by: Elisabeth Efua Sutherland
Director of Photography: Sam Jiahao Zhang
Performance by: Hvrmony Adams
Makeup Artist: Natou Fall
Steadicam Operator: Dae Hyun Kim
Gaffer: Haley Kreofsky
1st AC: Jo Zhou
Stylist: Evaline Wu Huang
Production Assistance: Mari Curti
Production Assistance: Meryem Lahlou
Production Photographer: Ina Chen
Special Thanks to: Alexey Marfin and Casey Rehm
Year:
since 2021
Type:
Multi-media installation
Websites:
kidushaile.com
ainsleealemrobson.com
Where?
Aktionsraum, level 5
