Black Planetarium: Uncharted Anthologies
Art, Exhibition, Motion Graphics, 3D, Animation, Iconography
Project SummaryBlack Planetarium creates a space for the collective rehearsal of other worlds shaped by Pan-African knowledge-making. Through breath, movement, atmospheric archive, and shared listening practices, the work traces the persistence of collective memory and imagination.
Rooted in more than 5,000 years of Pan-African knowledge systems, this inaugural exhibition at The Music Center’s Digital Art Pavilion extends Kidus Hailesilassie’s ongoing research project, Ancestral Algorithm—a cartography of 6,500 pictographs, ideographs, syllabaries, alphabets, and iconographs drawn from twenty African languages.
Credits
Black Atlas Map
Large-Scale Wall Installation / Cosmological Field Map - Kidus Hailesilassie
Oceanic Re-membering: Meditation Video Projection
Voice Over: Kamali Martin
Visual Effects & Animation: RAWx, Orin Torati, Santiago Ceballos, Luis Garcia Grech
Installation Designer: Kidus Hailesilassie
Site Production & Activations Coordinator: Aleyna Van Antwerp
Virtual Reality Experience — Uncharted Anthologies
Created By: Kidus Hailesilassie
Co-Directed By: Kidus Hailesilassie & Ainslee Alem Robson
Produced By: Liam Young, Kidus Hailesilassie, Ainslee Alem Robson, Aja Quinn Evans
Executive Producer, Black Public Media: Lisa Osborne
Choreography & Movement Direction: Elisabeth Efua Sutherland
Performance: Harmony Adams
Production Design: Kidus Hailesilassie
Director of Photography: Sam Jiahao Zhang
Steadicam Operator: Dae Hyun Kim
Photo Credits
Henry R. Jones
Devin Wesley