BLACKSPACE: A MEMORY LANDSCAPE by blackpowerprincess

Curation of Archival  Black Imagery, Sounds, excerpts  and documents pertaining to Black people

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Black art cannot escape being measured in adjacent to the presence and absence of westernness and whiteness. Black art becomes contemporary though its commodification. It transcends under western possession. Black Art is “neo-traditional” existing in a vexing didactic space between black antiquity and “modernity" Now more than ever, it is important for Black people study our own archive and  to create images, sounds and objects. Self expression and creation is a political act. Through this virtual gallery, I explore the archive of blackness as a memory landscape. In its first iteration, it exhibits images  from the mid-late  20th century.

Jacques Derrida argues, “[There is no political power without control of the archive, if not memory.   the archive affirms the past, present, and future; it preserves the records of the past and it embodies the promise of the present to the future. If the archive cannot or does not accommodate a particular kind of information or mode of scholarship, then it is effectively excluded from the historical record.”. I encourage the viewers think of ways our own personal archives affirm our past, present, and future. How do our creations fit into larger archives?  Does the passage of time  always equate to change? 

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