The Red Earth Project (2019-)
6. Process 1: Process and Theory
The materiality of restitutive claims comes into question. If the posthuman is ascendant, the cognitive realm of primacy, what is the value of the material, polluted and debased, through theft, temporal decimation and chemical processes? Similarly, what is the value of neglected language cultures and practices? What, then, will also lie beyond figurative representation within West African art when the figurative is used to define and control non-whiteness in the digital/virtual space?