Harriet: Performing an Archive

Through motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI perform 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 An Archive 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. 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.
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ADMISSION
– FREE and open to Arts Division Staff & Faculty
– RSVP REQUIRED: reserve a seat via Eventbrite
– The event will be held in the DARC Lab (black box) in the Digital Arts Research Center on the first floor, just inside the front entrance.
– Doors will open at 7pm, and the show will start at 7:30pm
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PARKING
– Parking by permit or ParkMobile
– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event
– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces, Medical spaces, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.
– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS)
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This program is open to all UC Santa Cruz affiliates consistent with state and federal law.