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The audio in this artwork consists of howling winds as well as excerpts from Burning Spear’s song “Columbus” and the 1984 documentarySPEAKER 1: The meeting place of the old world and the new was here.Not the discovery of a brave new world. Not glorious Spanish conquistadors. The plantations, which followed Columbus and slavery. Contact with Europe is still seen as having brought with it little but disease, servitude, and deprivation. The destruction of Native peoples and culture.
SPEAKER 2: What about the Arawak Indians? The Indians couldn’t hang on no longer. Here comes Black man and woman and children. Here comes Black man and woman and children. SPEAKER 1: Not the discovery of a brave new world. Not glorious Spanish conquistadors. The plantations, which followed Columbus and slavery.
Although the word “territory” is often understood as a political concept, like nations and fixed borders, it is also a way to describe the psychic landscapes, or inner worlds, that inform our shared experiences. Whereas diaspora starts as the physical movement of people, its process results in new personal, cultural, and historical territories. Artists in this section approach these shifting territories using processes of transfer, layering, and concealment.
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