Through motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI performs alongside Harriet, a life-scale avatar carrying a living archive of Black cultural memory. Together, they move through fragments of sound, image, and memory, shaping the world around them as the performance unfolds. Performing Anarchive brings body and technology together in a live exploration of memory, movement, and possibility.

Artist Talk at Indexical
Fri., Oct 23, 5pm

Performance at Colligan Theater
Fri., Oct 23, 7pm

CHARI (Dr. Chari Smith) is an NY Emmy-nominated composer, interdisciplinary artist, humanities scholar, and new media archivist. Their practice explores alternative archival methods through and with a Black lens, building immersive worlds through sound, installation, and performance while critically engaging technology as subject, tool, collaborator, and adversary.