The importance of the archive

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The archive has been the space of intervention from the beginning. And I suppose that will be the motif for the rest of the practise. But the archive also has an overarching historic importance, because it’s connected to this question of diasporic identity. One of the few spaces, reservoirs of memory for diasporic subjects IS the archive.

John Akomfrah