UNDER CONSTRUCTION / work in progress
The interdisciplinary project weaves together ancestral and diasporic memory, research and speculative storytelling to create healing realms that foster collective remembrance, connection, and regeneration. Encompassing dynamic digital and IRL ecosystems, participants traverse a labyrinthine journey leaving and amassing traces of rituals with embedded portals centered on healing and unlearning. Honoring the histories of divine feminine and gender-expansive figures such as Durga–a goddess from the Hindu pantheon who embodies Shakti (or the divine feminine life force) Kali–She destroys ignorance, maintains the world order, and blesses and liberates those who strive for knowledge of God. In other interpretations, Kali is associated with the cemetery and cremation grounds, where the impermanence of life is realized, symbolizing liberation and the transformation that follows death Fatima al-Fihri who founded al-Qarawiyyin, the world’s oldest university in the 9th century Marie Laveau–a healer, priestess and divinator in 19th century Louisiana Saida Manoubia (also known as Aisha Al-Manoubya)–a 13th century Sufi scholar who was later venerated as a saint Bibi Sahiba Kalan - scholar-saint of the Afghan Empire. Bibi Sahiba studied theology, Islamic law and medicine and was recognised as a great educatior and mystic. She travelled to North India, Central Asia and Arabia and built and managed educational institutes and shrines Oya, Yoruba goddess of rain, thunder, lightning (Nigeria, Benin, Togo) Kahmahsuma, earth mother of the lenni Lenape, from her, all things grow up from the land. Guan Yin - the goddess of mercy and compassion. Originally associated with the male bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Guan Yin underwent a gender transformation in China and is now commonly depicted as a female deity Asenath Barzani - Kurdish Jewish Talmudic scholar and poet Dalnim is a figure in Korean mythology often associated with the moon. She is sometimes referred to as the goddess or spirit of the moon, embodying the qualities and characteristics attributed to the lunar body in Korean folklore Pachamama - is a revered goddess in the indigenous Andean cultures, particularly among the Quechua and Aymara peoples. She is known as the Earth Mother and embodies the concept of fertility, nourishment, and protection.