an undisciplined project

we grapple with the double-bind of the archive—including public (colonial) records, private collections and oral repositories—its sheer terror and possibility, the grave potential for ethical indeterminacy, the inextricable co-mingling of violence and the soft ripples of care.

without taking the archive, or history, by definition or relevance, for granted, we pose another problem: “where might we find the littoral in all of this?”

the following is a gathering of images, clips, audio, fragments, etc., that engage with the littoral zones of the black atlantic, whether on the west african coast or the diaspora.