#counterhistories

[dianah-artfuturismresearch]

AFRONAUTS | short film by Frances Bodomo | 2014

[whentherewerebicycles]

Yet how does one recuperate lives entangled with and impossible to differentiate from the terrible utterances that condemned them to death, the account books that identified them as units of value, the invoices that claimed them as property, and the banal chronicles that stripped them of human features? [...] Put differently, how does one rewrite the chronicle of a death foretold and anticipated, as a collective biography of dead subjects, as a counter-history of the human, as the practice of freedom?

Saidiya Hartman, "Venus in Two Acts"