Archive Alchemy for Black History Month

V E S S E L // F E R M E N T archive alchemy (make it a prayer)

is a multi-sensory installation, activation, and collaboration between Black Femme interdisciplinary artists, Yves B. Golden, Myssi Robinson, and curator Seta Morton. Hosted by PAGEANT (Brooklyn), February 15-16, 2024. This fundraiser is an effort towards reparations and reparative action within our artistic circles. For Black History Month, we invite you to donate what you can, to help us build and hold space for Black memories, futures, and time travel.

We will offer two evenings of expression, poetics, and ritual, within an immersive environment and installation. Within the tradition of change, guided by Octavia Butler, we will gather as a collective of living archives, to transform and re-member ourselves while bearing witness to one another. The first evening, which is open to both Black and non-black audiences, will be ticketed on a sliding scale set by the venue. The second evening invites a protective space for Black people only. Yves, Myssi, and Seta wish to make this evening free of charge for Black participants and will buy out the PAGEANT box office to do so. That's where you come in! Please donate what you can to make this possible. First and foremost, we invite white folks and non-black folks to make donations. *Donations will support three critical areas of this project—

**Donate over $100 and receive a mixed and mastered audio of 15 Candles by Yves B. Golden in collaboration with musician/producer, Stephen Hill.

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More about our Project:

Looking at Black aesthetics and the “the archive” as a living entity, to be engaged over time and using “fermentation” as a metaphor for intentional disruption and transformation—does the archive ferment?

Together we will assemble an environment. We will embody and express as a way to process and hold our ephemera and belonging. Yves will bring us into the unfurling embodiment of a poem, “15 Candles,” as Myssi guides us through processes of creation, remembrance, and reflection. We’ll make individual and collective medicines in real time.

On Feb 15th, all are invited to gather in a night of shared envisioning, craft and creative labor to build an environment to support an exclusively Black gathering that will follow on the 16th.

On Feb 16th, Black community will be held within an installation designed for remembering, reflection and nourishment. Together we will create a multi-sensory wayward archive of these encounters. All for the memory and miracle of our being Black, present and surviving.