The Center for No Center

collaborative project created with Dahlia Elsayed

The Center for No Center presents a speculative “reading room for alternative intelligences, inspired by cosmological geometries for seeing with the heart.” Conjuring an alternate timeline beyond our present, the reading room situates itself in a space-time where the Library of Alexandria and the House of Wisdom remain extant, while the Enlightenment and European colonial projects failed to exist at all. The installation frames that space-time as one marked by knowledge systems that radically differ from our own, refusing differentiations between science, math, art, literature, and spirituality. It’s populated by a library of texts on critical media studies, which visitors are encouraged to peruse.