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Guest Editor: Manisha Anjali
Issue 41: LovePublished April 2020
Saccharin is a work of citational poetry and audio that responds to three films and attempts to unearth something new in the process. It asks how documentary can be love practice — where watery bodies are fleshy moving archives, creating porous intimate spaces of collective survival.
All the audio comes from the films:Daughters of the dust - directed by Julie Dash (1991)Tongues untied - directed by Marlon T. Riggs (1989)When I get home (Director’s Cut) - directed by Solange Knowles (2019)
Kiki Amberber lives and makes work on Gadigal Land.
She is interested in modes of futurity that emerge in small and shattering ways; through the zones of digital intimacy, diaspora, movement, and archival practice. Her work attempts to create or expose time-space fractures that open lines from the ancestral to the not-yet-here. In this way, she hopes to orient herself towards new worlds that disrupt colonial acts of violence.
She mostly works in poetry, prose, and audio. She has been published in Voiceworks, writes for Honi Soit, and presents and produces at FBi Radio.Her influences include Afrofuturism, experimental documentary, narratives of the griot, and queer understandings of utopia, the future, and affective bodily flows.
She is currently studying a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Gender Studies and Media at the University of Sydney. She is really into stone fruit, the sun, Dev Hynes’ music, water, poc joy, and Toni Morrison’s words.
kikiamberber.wordpress.com