LONGITUDE/LATITUDE
Longitude/Latitude is an exploration of modes of relation when traversing and navigating oceanic space, and their associative narratives of empire and tidalectic counter-narratives. The modern and global measurements of time were formed “based upon the movement of eighteenth-century British ships traversing oceanic space”—specifically the maritime slave trade routes of the Atlantic. (Elizabeth DeLoughrey).
The political constructs associated with traversing oceanic space were concerned with harnessing the fluidity of the ocean to homogenize, temporalize, and universalize in linear Eurocentric terms and historiographies. The cognitive (re)mapping of tidalectics is concerned with deterritorializations of the ocean as dynamic space and fluid interrelation, employing Caribbean (re)conceptualizations of relation and movement when traversing and navigating the oceans.
