Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle: Kentifrications

July 2018, English, 9 x 13 in, 2 books (8.5 x 11 in, 40 pages, color, softcover; 5.5 x 8 in, 32 pages, risograph, color, softcover), 1 zine (4 x 6 in, 10 pages, color), 1 USB flash drive clipEdition of 200Design: Sming Sming Books Kentifrica is a contested geography/continent for which artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle is developing an educational and research platform. Through re-creating Kentifrican objects, sharing narratives and customs from her research archives, she is exploring identity as a construction, inviting critical engagement with the intersections of collective vs. personal histories, Diaspora, migration, immigration, cross-cultural exchange, issues of geography and authority in relation- ship to knowledge production. Through the embodiment of various voices and modes of address, Hinkle examines what happens to bodies in transit and how are they contextualized culturally, depending upon historically sanctioned, dominant signifiers of race and culture. The project exists