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Yseult By Thibault-Théodore Babin For i-D Magazine October 2020

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A key thinker of creolization, Brathwaite makes us aware that hybridization is not restricted to land, but begins in maritime spaces and at the coast. Just like navigators who land at a new shore, bringing with them their living and constantly shifting stories, myths, and beliefs, the concept of Tidalectics can migrate from its original context in Brathwaite’s writing to other geographies and realms. The exhibition carefully transfers the term, mindful not to obscure its specificity but considering the notion as starting point for an oceanic worldview. Tidalectics merges the anchored with the itinerant and moves back and forth between being waterborne and touching land. It allows us to think of hybridity, cross-cultural syncretism, incompleteness, and fragmentation. The influence of the ocean is not restricted to the waters and aquatic beings, it affects land and terrestrial life just as much—as a source of food and as a threat when sea levels rise. The exhibition seeks to comprehend our histories as trajectories tossed by waves, from ocean crossings to systems of exchange, myths, and microbial origins. It highlights processes of cultural adaptation and material change, presenting a rich framework for understanding the coalescing polarities of contemporaneity and history, science and poetics, the global and the local, routes and roots, and ourselves with the oceans and their many and diverse inhabitants.

Vía

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Like the movement of the ocean she’s walking on, coming From continent/continuum, touching another, and Then receding (‘reading’) from from the island(s) into the perhaps Creative chaos of the(ir) future 

– Kamau Brathwaite, ConVERSations with Nathaniel Mackey

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STEVEN G. NORFLEET Beauty in Black 1.06 "Bang Bang"

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Elmgreen & Dragset, Dirty Socks, polished bronze, steel, lacquer, socks, 2019, 125 x 62 x 62 cm, unique

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a lost file from september 2024..

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