Slide PARTY
2026 - Present
2026 - Present
Slide PARTY is a narrated slideshow in which I present slides made by my grandfather between 1960 and 1990 of my family in Durban, South Africa alongside stories that my family has shared with me. It is constructed as an anthology series,
Engaging the slide party as a forum for social convening, story sharing, and close-looking at images, Slide PARTY brings to life a setting where we can listen and share with one antoher. By marrying the slide, the physical (and thus permanent) document (and the connotations of permanencty affoed to this medium) with the oral narrative (that which is inherently ephemeral by nature of the perceived vulnerabiity of memory), I can
An integral component of the work is that the audience may not photograph or record the slides being projected. This is to protect the privacy and