To give the remaining bronze casters and their families agency over what this craft will look like moving forward, the project will create a collection of digital and physical artifacts that tell three stories about Benin’s stolen cultural heritage.
- The first story is the history of the dispersal of Benin cultural artifacts throughout the Global North as repositories of significant cultural, historical, and technical knowledge.
- The second story follows the changes Edo bronze and brass casters have adopted as a survival mechanism while efforts for repatriation have crawled forward and stalled.
- The third story is a speculative re-contextualization of the Western institutions as fruits of the labor of ancient bronze casters, giving them the status of rooms in the destroyed Benin palace.
