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Curated by Roya DelSol

Anique Jordan, Ashley Jane Lewis, Isabel Okoro, KanikaXx, Kim Ninkuru, Meech Boakye, Oreka James, Zoe Osborne

BLACK_BOX is a hybrid physical / virtual reality exhibition and speculative project that considers archives, art spaces and art making as a means of knowledge transfer and preservation. Almost anything might be referred to as a black box: a transistor, an algorithm, the human brain — or an artspace built upon principles of Black sovereignty, whose function is to obfuscate Black communities & knowledge from the White gaze.

BLACK_BOX asks in what ways could a Black archive exist – how is the archive generated and cared for? Who does the archive celebrate? In what forms can an archive exist and be embodied – a dance, a garden, a fungal root network, an altar? What stories do these unconventional archives tell about the crises that we as Black people overcame, and how? How can these archives also not just hold knowledge, but exist as spaces of community that facilitate healing? By connecting our physical embodied reality with an imagined, digital world; BLACK_BOX creates a pathway for the viewer to transcend space and time to experience a vessel that attempts to hold space for these questions and imaginations.

BLACK_BOX features work from artists Anique Jordan, Ashley Jane Lewis, Isabel Okoro, Kanika Gordon, Kim Ninkuru, Meech Boakye, and Oreka James; with a virtual space designed by Zoe Osborne; guest writing from digital archivist AFIH; and is curated by Roya DelSol.

https://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/programming/exhibition-black_box/