Becoming with the Archive: Blackness, Gender, Diaspora

‘Becoming with the archive: Blackness, gender, diaspora’ is an ongoing visual series that engages auto/ethnography as a Black feminist archival practice and a mode of inquiry in which audio/visual, written, and ritual acts become a living practice of researching and art-making. Through an assemblage of still and moving images collected during family trips to Ghana and Jamaica, and the various cities I’ve called home, among them Brooklyn, Orlando, and London, I show how emotional, embodied, experimental ways of knowing inform how I research and theorize the Black diasporic experience. Between Negril and Montego Bay

‘I am the daugther of the diaspora’ (2021)’ is my most recent work. Featured examples include ‘A Living Archive for Amy Ashwood Garvey’ and Between Negril and Montego Bay.