/virtu.all august — All Street Gallery

In his book “The Fact of Blackness,” Frantz Fanon said, “while I was forgetting, forgiving, and wanting only to love, my message was flung back in my fact like a slap.” To be Black is a constant performance of affectability, it is to do your best to live your life and be constantly reminded that you are expected to live for others.

How do we honor precedent while rupturing it for new life? As living beings, we are time and space collapsed. We subvert linear time as we experience and shoulder the overwhelming shadow and noise of different memories, existences, and dreams in every moment. We cry, love, grieve, bleed, and just “are” every day. We pass down and inherit all of these things. We are entitled to keep them—a frighteningly stunning life. What is happening in the current moment, spliced with the past, is to live in memory, and that dynamic is to be human.

in living memory: In My Fact Like a Slap! explores this dynamic in a comprehensive sensorial experience, employing audio and visual techniques to render a frequency of the lived.

Watch the full film “In Living Memory” here.

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