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The video installation placed in the ‘Enslavement and the Middle Passage’ gallery features a very different form of video testimony: actors narrate and act out scenes of everyday life on the plantations in the Americas. The testimonials were filmed with costumed actors on location on the island of St Kitts and are inspired by and based on original sources but scripted by curators simulating the first-hand voices. They can at best be described as a simulacrum of an eyewitness account and might therefore better be called ‘testimonial videos’.
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Simine, S.Ad. (2013). Testimonial Video Installation. In: Mediating Memory in the Museum. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137352644_12
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