Nucleus of the Great Union

Exploring the potential as well as the dangers opened up by digital archives to access and (re-)configure historical material, Nucleus of the Great Union triggers a critical reflection on the formation of knowledge in the digital age through a dialectical relationship between image, text, sound and video elements. By creating new constellations of historical sources and numerous links between them, it reimagines Black Power as “an aesthetic of espionage assembled from still images with floating captions”. Finally, by overlaying poems, eyewitness reports and historical visual material of political events, the work not only makes palpable the tensions and the trepidation that accompanied the political and cultural transfer of the Gold Coast colony to the independent Republic of Ghana, but also epitomises a circular search for historical truth.