Huda Tayob

Index of Edges draws on the vast global worlds of encounters along the East African coasts to question architectural knowledge and archival resources, offering an alternative orientation.
An index is not a map. Rather than delineating boundaries, it gathers people, repositions histories, and draws out the significant. In Index of Edges sites and stories of deep and near futures are drawn into adjacency. It follows indexical points along the coast, from the first-century Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and eighteenth-century British Admiralty charts by Alexander Dalrymple, to contemporary coastal data and continued ways of living with watery intimacies, and recognises the ebb and flow of edge conditions, despite violence and catastrophe. The index traces the accumulation of embodied detritus of layered pasts through an excess of specificities which collates stories of site and temporality, archival and present.

Authorial collaborators
Aaniyah Martin with Sarah Martin, Traci Kwaai and Joanne Peers; Alia Mossallam with Mimi Al Ashry, Ibrahim al-Morsi and the Tanboura Band of Port Said; Andariya; Asmaa Jama; Caroline Ngorobi with Suleiman Bakari, Omar Said and Omar Ali; Dhaqan Collective; Dominique Somda; Khadija Abdalla Bajaber; Maria Gabriela Carrilho Aragão; Margarida Waco; Nada Atieg; Nothando Nolwazi Lunga; Shiraz Bayjoo; Toni Giselle Stuart
Technical collaborators
Andri Burnett, Danielsun Okeyo, Halima Ali, Kennedy Chikerema, Muhammad Taariq Husain Abdullatif
With the additional support of
British Council, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Goethe-Institut South Africa, North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University, National Trust, British Film Institute