(Digit)al Dread
- Cienna Davis
- Annenberg School for Communication
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Student Creative Production Grant
The assemblage will be developed in community-based workshops between Accra, Ghana; Berlin, Germany; and Philadelphia, PA (Black Arts Retreat: Soul Sisters Berlin Edition 2016. Photo Credit: Tobi Ayé.
(Digit)al Dread is a project in three phases that considers Black hair care practice as (digit)al technology to evoke the unmediated networks of touch and interdependent care practices mobilized by afro-textured hair. (Digit)al Dread will result in a physical assemblage that uses Black hair care practices (braiding, twisting, locking, etc.) to merge afro-hair with various items and materials associated with electronic technologies and diasporic memories. The assemblage will be interactive, allowing Black femmes to use their own hair to plug into the installation- hearing stories, touching memories, and smelling scents that invoke the kind of sacred, communicative technology of Black hair care practice.