the Party of the Dead
The Party of the Dead is a way to hear those who have been deprived of a voice. Collecting memories, archiving silence, advocating for the rights of the departed. Actions as rituals, protests, texts, and sounds. Loss becomes a political presence, so that the living can answer the questions of ghosts. The dead unite in a political bloc to prevent the living and the authorities from exploiting their voices.
BLACKOUT COLLECTIVE
Blackout is a way of speaking about nostalgia, longing, and lostness. We view memory as a landscape: sometimes a city, sometimes skin, sometimes a sheet of paper where past routes are etched. We are drawn to things in which the past lingers longer than usual: to floor plans of houses that cannot be returned to; to alleys and paths that can never be retraced; to the imprints of bodies on the edge of a bed, to the traces of those who have passed. Surfaces become the relief of memory, and the "floating," inaccessible points on Google Maps and photographs become rehearsals for future touches of what was.