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8 Reimaging and Reimagining an Absent-Presence in Cotton.com (2003)
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Published:December 2019
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Himid teases out cotton’s multiple implications as a priceless commodity in the global economy to tell stories that rebound backwards and forwards across time and geographies implicating populations from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe in local spaces and global networks that promote complex narratives around race, ethnicity, gender, class and nation. Her installation connects workers in Manchester to slaves in South Carolina to tell their interconnected stories through black and white patterns that mimic both historical and contemporary communication modes from ballads to mobile phone texts and computer communications. The specific history of the Lancaster Cotton Famine and its link to the American Civil War is key to the message of solidarity told through Cotton.com. Himid’s message of Transatlantic solidarity is discussed in terms of Michael Rothberg’s theoretical frame of multi-dimensional memory as a counterpoint to the limitations of Pierre Nora’s theories of memory and history. In spite of an inadequate material archive, she conjures through her work new ways to articulate forgotten histories that traditional historians elide.
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