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Ancestral Wisdom – Ask an Ancestor
01/11/2021 - 07/11/2021 // 10:00 am - 6:00 pm @ Lighthouse
Ifeatu Nnaobi's interactive installation invokes deeper questions of heritage and connection for Black and people of colour living in the diaspora. Participants can engage in the project by asking any of their questions to a customised Artificial Intelligence platform.
The aim of this project is to prove thinking about how we exist as part of families (biological or chosen), communities (local or global).
Audiences will speak to a little box asking it a question that they wish they could ask one of their ancestors. In return, they will hear a pre-recorded response of another person speaking about a question that they wish they could ask their own ancestor and why. They can repeat the experience as many times as they like.
Ancestral Wisdom has been produced by Lighthouse and commissioned through Digital Democracies, a two-year programme led by Threshold Studios and supported by Arts Council England. Digital Democracies connects three UK-based commissioning festivals, Frequency International Festival of Digital Culture (produced by Threshold Studios), Freedom Festival (produced by Freedom Festival Arts Trust) and Brighton Digital Festival (directed by Lighthouse), along with a network of associate partners and collaborators across the UK.
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