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Kingston has a rich history of Black life, Tracing Kingston’s Solidarities, is a series of performance pop-ups that looks to activate these hidden Black histories. Each day focuses on a person or family and their history in the city. Gesturing toward abundant print histories and archives, a mobile printing press is situated on Market Square. The public are invited to print t-shirts and pick up a brochure that explains the life behind the images. In this way the performance responds to a hidden history and scrutinizes both visible and invisible pasts.

Tracing Kingston’s Solidarities is a collaboration between interdisciplinary artist Alejandro Arauz and Agnes’s Associate Curator, Arts of Africa Qanita Lilla. The mobile printing press was fabricated by Arauz, whose practice explores issues of identity and diaspora through the vernacular of print media, performance, and video. Lilla’s curatorial work looks to provide alternatives to exclusionary museum practices.