9Night and Good Mourning is an immersive media installation that borrows its title and ethos from  the African-syncretic funerary tradition, Nine Night, practiced across the Caribbean diaspora. This tradition is a narrative event that often takes place in the home, filled with aromatic foods, card and tile-based games, ear-splitting laughter, heartwrenching cries, and stories of the dead. This exhibition uses a 3-D diagrammatic representation of 31 Albouys Street, Albouystown, Georgetown, Guyana. The house becomes the entrypoint to conjuring the spirit of the dead and sending them to their next life on the ninth night of mourning.

9Night and Good Mourning centers this funerary tradition to investigate where African-syncretic spiritualities and spatial media converge. By drawing together methods of vernacular speech and architecture, and immersive media, visitors are invited to challenge geographies of power and redefine life and death in places designated unlivable.