AFTERLIFE GEOGRAPHIES | INTERSECTING COSMOLOGIES IN THE SURROUND
AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND
KAMAU AMU PATTON & ZAINAB LASCANDRI
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
AUGUST 28, 2024
LINK TO VIDEO WITH SOUND:SEQUENCE 1
LINK TO PROJECT TEXTS: INTERSECTING COSMOLOGIES
AFTERLIFE GEOGRAPHIES
In so far as the afterlife is accessed through the imagination, the afterlife situates what a future world might entail, and rearranges the pieces of the world, as we knew it, into a vision of the future. Afterlife Geographies considers sacred sites, sites of restoration, sites of reclamation, and sites of liberation. The project charts language, movement, thought, speech, and action to develop structures that archive histories of community building. Afterlife Geographies documents “way-of-life” practices, in relation to processes of settlement, by which communities articulate world view, synthesize experience, and establish infrastructures of empowerment and remembrance.
Informed by Pan-African syncretized political, spiritual and aesthetic practices, the project proposes an investigation of diaspora conceptual structures and design approach through a charting of language, movement, thought, speech and action. The project aims to archive histories of community building through documenting stories, strategies, and sites. Afterlife Geographies is concerned with archiving histories of place making and village planning, the documentation of processes of settlement and witnessing the development of sites through which communities provide space for contemplation, reflection, meditation and prayer.
Afterlife Geographies views the histories of African Diaspora spiritual, social and political design practices as linked by the practice of syncretizing. That is, the African Diaspora relationship to social practice can be viewed as a relationship not to a singular, social practice but as a dynamic relationship to a multiplicity of practices which incorporates a multiplicity of histories and beliefs. This fluid model of assimilation is common to the principle religious systems of the Caribbean such as Palo Monte, Santeria, Arara, Voudoun and Abakuya. Afterlife Geographies considers this sensibility as it has been articulated through Diaspora practices of landscape design and urban planning.
AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
AUGUST 28, 2024
LINK TO VIDEO WITH SOUND: SEQUENCE 1
AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND
KAMAU AMU PATTON & ZAINAB LASCANDRI
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
AUGUST 28, 2024
LINK TO VIDEO WITH SOUND:SEQUENCE 1
LINK TO PROJECT TEXTS: INTERSECTING COSMOLOGIES
AFTERLIFE GEOGRAPHIES
In so far as the afterlife is accessed through the imagination, the afterlife situates what a future world might entail, and rearranges the pieces of the world, as we knew it, into a vision of the future. Afterlife Geographies considers sacred sites, sites of restoration, sites of reclamation, and sites of liberation. The project charts language, movement, thought, speech, and action to develop structures that archive histories of community building. Afterlife Geographies documents “way-of-life” practices, in relation to processes of settlement, by which communities articulate world view, synthesize experience, and establish infrastructures of empowerment and remembrance.
Informed by Pan-African syncretized political, spiritual and aesthetic practices, the project proposes an investigation of diaspora conceptual structures and design approach through a charting of language, movement, thought, speech and action. The project aims to archive histories of community building through documenting stories, strategies, and sites. Afterlife Geographies is concerned with archiving histories of place making and village planning, the documentation of processes of settlement and witnessing the development of sites through which communities provide space for contemplation, reflection, meditation and prayer.
Afterlife Geographies views the histories of African Diaspora spiritual, social and political design practices as linked by the practice of syncretizing. That is, the African Diaspora relationship to social practice can be viewed as a relationship not to a singular, social practice but as a dynamic relationship to a multiplicity of practices which incorporates a multiplicity of histories and beliefs. This fluid model of assimilation is common to the principle religious systems of the Caribbean such as Palo Monte, Santeria, Arara, Voudoun and Abakuya. Afterlife Geographies considers this sensibility as it has been articulated through Diaspora practices of landscape design and urban planning.
AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
AUGUST 28, 2024
LINK TO VIDEO WITH SOUND: SEQUENCE 1