Kameelah Janan Rasheed on Research and Archiving

I use the word hypertext because of Octavia Butler. She was interviewed around 1996 about hypertext. The guy who was speaking to her asked what she thought about the internet and what she thought about hypertext. She was like, “Oh, I don’t really use the internet like that, but I do believe in primitive hypertext.” It means that as she creates mate... See more

We look at them with a lesser hold than we do things that sit in formal archival structures. But, understanding that all of these things are intertwined and that there are ways of honoring bodies of knowledge that don’t fit into the archive has always been important. This project tries to draw on that concept, and on archives that exist within phys... See more

I am interested in forms and systems that exist in our context that are actually far ahead of the systems of archiving that we’ve been conditioned into. And thinking about things that are digital is often so interesting because there’s alignment within what is hybrid, shifting, evolving, and mutating. Or that are ritual, oral, aural, to something t... See more