This work has not been realized yet and is presented through a series of documents. The idea for the project came out of an artist residency in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. His host was a French coffee company who was refurbishing an 18th-century coffee plantation. As with many other buildings in Cuba, this historic site was being turned into a touristic destination and with it, its memory of slavery was being overwritten by the nostalgic exaltation of the ruins. “Very quickly, it because obvious to me that Cuba has not found the way to deal with its history of slavery and that current social relations are marked by deeply-rooted resentment,” declared the artist.

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Given the lack of Internet, especially in isolated areas off the capital, and inspired by projects like SNET, the artist thought to set up a local router connected to a hard drive, as an intranet hotspot, containing “every available documentary, movie and book about slavery.” In this way, people who visited the area and connected to it would have a different take on its landscape and architecture. Furthermore, the very presence of a digital data archive on slavery twisted the new concept of that space into a memorial site that could be literally experienced.