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An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris come into view.
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
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A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory traces the lives and legacies of thinkers, artists, and ancestors who shaped and were shaped by the Négritude movement, examining how their ideas moved across language, geography, and time.
Grounded in archival and field research, the project explores how systems of record-keeping, translation, and representation have contributed to both the preservation and erasure of diasporic memory. Rather than reproducing the form of a traditional archive, it approaches design as a method of remembering—one that makes space for multiplicity, care, and interpretation.
Each image, sound, and text operates as both evidence and encounter, reflecting the labor, context, and endurance embedded within diasporic histories. Over time, the work has shifted from recovery to maintenance—focusing less on what has been lost and more on what continues to endure through fragments, traces, and repetition.
Ultimately, the archive proposes continuity as an alternative to preservation, framing remembrance not as a static act but as an ongoing process of engagement with histories that remain alive.
In Brief
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory traces the lives and legacies of thinkers, artists, and ancestors who shaped and were shaped by the Négritude movement, examining how their ideas moved across language, geography, and time.
Grounded in archival and field research, the project explores how systems of record-keeping, translation, and representation have contributed to both the preservation and erasure of diasporic memory. Rather than reproducing the form of a traditional archive, it approaches design as a method of remembering—one that makes space for multiplicity, care, and interpretation.
Each image, sound, and text operates as both evidence and encounter, reflecting the labor, context, and endurance embedded within diasporic histories. Over time, the work has shifted from recovery to maintenance—focusing less on what has been lost and more on what continues to endure through fragments, traces, and repetition.
Ultimately, the archive proposes continuity as an alternative to preservation, framing remembrance not as a static act but as an ongoing process of engagement with histories that remain alive.
In Brief
Chapters
Act |: The New Negro
Alain locke, The New Negro
The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.
Act ||: Black Orpheus
Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus
Here then is Orpheus, the Negro Orpheus, who sings. He sings because he is sad: sad like the world, sad like the century, sad like you and me. But the world listens, and the century listens, and I listen, and I say that it is beautiful
Act ||| : I, Negre
Aime Cesaire , Discours sur le colonialisme
Negro I am and Negro I will remain.
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
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A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris comes into view.
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A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris come into view.
This is only a glimpse. The full experience unfolds soon.
Be the first to know when new acts premiere, rare materials surface, and the archive expands.
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Be the first to know when new acts premiere, rare materials surface, and the archive expands.
An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris come into view.
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
Tickets available for desktop viewers. Touchscreen Device box office opens shortly.
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory traces the lives and legacies of thinkers, artists, and ancestors who shaped and were shaped by the Négritude movement, examining how their ideas moved across language, geography, and time.
Grounded in archival and field research, the project explores how systems of record-keeping, translation, and representation have contributed to both the preservation and erasure of diasporic memory. Rather than reproducing the form of a traditional archive, it approaches design as a method of remembering—one that makes space for multiplicity, care, and interpretation.
Each image, sound, and text operates as both evidence and encounter, reflecting the labor, context, and endurance embedded within diasporic histories. Over time, the work has shifted from recovery to maintenance—focusing less on what has been lost and more on what continues to endure through fragments, traces, and repetition.
Ultimately, the archive proposes continuity as an alternative to preservation, framing remembrance not as a static act but as an ongoing process of engagement with histories that remain alive.
In Brief
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory traces the lives and legacies of thinkers, artists, and ancestors who shaped and were shaped by the Négritude movement, examining how their ideas moved across language, geography, and time.
Grounded in archival and field research, the project explores how systems of record-keeping, translation, and representation have contributed to both the preservation and erasure of diasporic memory. Rather than reproducing the form of a traditional archive, it approaches design as a method of remembering—one that makes space for multiplicity, care, and interpretation.
Each image, sound, and text operates as both evidence and encounter, reflecting the labor, context, and endurance embedded within diasporic histories. Over time, the work has shifted from recovery to maintenance—focusing less on what has been lost and more on what continues to endure through fragments, traces, and repetition.
Ultimately, the archive proposes continuity as an alternative to preservation, framing remembrance not as a static act but as an ongoing process of engagement with histories that remain alive.
In Brief
Chapters
Act |: The New Negro
Alain locke, The New Negro
The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.
Act ||: Black Orpheus
Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus
Here then is Orpheus, the Negro Orpheus, who sings. He sings because he is sad: sad like the world, sad like the century, sad like you and me. But the world listens, and the century listens, and I listen, and I say that it is beautiful
Act ||| : I, Negre
Aime Cesaire , Discours sur le colonialisme
Negro I am and Negro I will remain.
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
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A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris comes into view.
This is only a glimpse. The full experience unfolds soon.
Be the first to know when new acts premiere, rare materials surfaces, and the archive expands.
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Timecode: Camera One | Scene One
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A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris come into view.
This is only a glimpse. The full experience unfolds soon.
Be the first to know when new acts premiere, rare materials surface, and the archive expands.
Tickets available for desktop viewers. Mobile box office opens shortly.
Reserve Your Ticket
0:00/1:34
Reserve Your Ticket
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This is only a glimpse. The full experience unfolds soon.
Be the first to know when new acts premiere, rare materials surface, and the archive expands.
An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris come into view.
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
Tickets available for desktop viewers. Touchscreen Device box office opens shortly.
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory traces the lives and legacies of thinkers, artists, and ancestors who shaped and were shaped by the Négritude movement, examining how their ideas moved across language, geography, and time.
Grounded in archival and field research, the project explores how systems of record-keeping, translation, and representation have contributed to both the preservation and erasure of diasporic memory. Rather than reproducing the form of a traditional archive, it approaches design as a method of remembering—one that makes space for multiplicity, care, and interpretation.
Each image, sound, and text operates as both evidence and encounter, reflecting the labor, context, and endurance embedded within diasporic histories. Over time, the work has shifted from recovery to maintenance—focusing less on what has been lost and more on what continues to endure through fragments, traces, and repetition.
Ultimately, the archive proposes continuity as an alternative to preservation, framing remembrance not as a static act but as an ongoing process of engagement with histories that remain alive.
In Brief
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory traces the lives and legacies of thinkers, artists, and ancestors who shaped and were shaped by the Négritude movement, examining how their ideas moved across language, geography, and time.
Grounded in archival and field research, the project explores how systems of record-keeping, translation, and representation have contributed to both the preservation and erasure of diasporic memory. Rather than reproducing the form of a traditional archive, it approaches design as a method of remembering—one that makes space for multiplicity, care, and interpretation.
Each image, sound, and text operates as both evidence and encounter, reflecting the labor, context, and endurance embedded within diasporic histories. Over time, the work has shifted from recovery to maintenance—focusing less on what has been lost and more on what continues to endure through fragments, traces, and repetition.
Ultimately, the archive proposes continuity as an alternative to preservation, framing remembrance not as a static act but as an ongoing process of engagement with histories that remain alive.
In Brief
Chapters
Act |: The New Negro
Alain locke, The New Negro
The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.
Act ||: Black Orpheus
Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus
Here then is Orpheus, the Negro Orpheus, who sings. He sings because he is sad: sad like the world, sad like the century, sad like you and me. But the world listens, and the century listens, and I listen, and I say that it is beautiful
Act ||| : I, Negre
Aime Cesaire , Discours sur le colonialisme
Negro I am and Negro I will remain.
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
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A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris comes into view.
This is only a glimpse. The full experience unfolds soon.
Be the first to know when new acts premiere, rare materials surfaces, and the archive expands.
Reserve Your Ticket
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19:15:30
Timecode: Camera One | Scene One
0:00/1:34
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris come into view.
This is only a glimpse. The full experience unfolds soon.
Be the first to know when new acts premiere, rare materials surface, and the archive expands.
Tickets available for desktop viewers. Mobile box office opens shortly.
Reserve Your Ticket
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