Harriet: Performing Anarchive
April 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Free
Through motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI (Dr. Chari Smith) performs alongside Harriet, a life-scale avatar carrying a living archive of Black sonic and vernacular memory. Drawing from Black archival traditions rooted in call-and-response, improvisation, and communal stewardship, the performance understands memory as relational and alive. Together, our movements shape the environment as the performance unfolds, images shift, sound expands, and memory surfaces in fragments.
Performing Anarchive turns the stage into a threshold between body and code, memory and possibility. It imagines a future where technology is not distant or extractive, but intimate, attentive, and alive.
Parking:
Performance Arts Lot
Permits Accepted: A, N, MC, ADA, Medical, Reserved,
Parkmobile: Zone 15158
This performance was made possible in part through grant funding from Investing in Artists: Artistic Innovation at The Center for Cultural Innovation, the Arts Division, and the Arts Research Institute.