Living Our Legacy: Ancestral Knowledge as Radical Futurity
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Published:February 2024
Part 5 focuses on the ways in which artists engage with ancestral connections and nonlinear time in order to cultivate radical futures. Contributions feature topics including the importance of connecting with native language as a way to unlock ancestral knowledge; cultural traumas as temporal disruptors and sites for healing; Gullah/Geechee ancestral connection through land; limitations of the archive and artistic efforts to hold more full, complex stories; movement as a means of accessing embodied knowledge and connection; FandangObon dance as a conversation between cultures; Indigenous resilience through Lakota basket weaving and song traditions; cocreating art with the ancestors; and altar making as a site of memory, connection, and self-knowledge.