camara taylor is an artist based in Glasgow. They work with their various selves and collaborators to produce still and moving images, texts and sculpture from the accumulation and dissolution of image, language and presence. Camara’s films have screened across the UK and internationally. Photo by Rowan Markson.
A family convenes exactly 500 years after Charles V grants permission to Lorenzo de Gorrevod “to import 4000 Africans into New Spain.” The King’s act marks the escalation of a rupture, with its origins in 1492, that remakes the world and reverberates into the present. This apparent “start of slavery” becomes an occasion to tell the story of one family’s implication across time and space. In nobody’s word, the family archive is digitised and disintegrated in order to reframe accounts, destabilise claims, and inhabit spaces between fact and fiction, questioning the narrative impulses that inform the stories we tell.
nobody’s word will play as part of the Shorts Block: Why Does the Air Tremble?
