Ghana is a small country in West Africa. In Ghana, the custom is to greet your neighbor as sister or brother. This represents a sense of connection absent here in America... Ghana is far away.

My sister, my brother. You are welcome. Enter. Novinye. Miawoezo. Ame. I hope you are well. I am glad to see you. Come, read with me the Coded Messages. We will meet transcendence. We will meet cold limitation. It is the way of the world.

CHAINS <==> representation. In the Middle Ages, people thought you could fall off the edge of the earth. Now you can just fall off the edge of the information superhighway.

The performance materials herein are collaboration. This text is the voice of white people in New York City, on a main trunk line of the information superhighway. When will our sisters and brothers in West Africa see these pages? Indeed, when will our sisters and brothers in Harlem come here freely?

Read the Annotated Coded Messages: CHAINS to learn about this work. This installation is dedicated to the children of Anyako.

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Andruid Kerne, Mel Lang, and Francis Kofi. All rights reserved.

Email inquiries to chains@ecologylab.net.