site-specific

site-specific is a forthcoming speculative interactive web zine compiling fragments of Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographic practice and archival stewardship of Black life, in the ways that she took up blackness as a site of significant cultural production. Hurston, whose methods spilled across literature, linguistics, folklore, performance, and documentary as disciplines, celebrated Black language and labor specifically as data inside of a rich network of protocols routing Black (southern) life.

site-specific is an attempt to begin answering the question of “what would Zora do with, for, on the internet?” — how would she spill across cyberspace? how can her archival methods be embodied by our current technologies, and in what ways does Hurston's practice teach us how to refuse contemporary forms of technological capture?

a project of citation studio.