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Secession Building

The venue: Secession Building

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JJJJJerome Ellis: An unfinished calendar that commemorates slaves escaping their enslavers, 1673-1886

Secession Building · Vienna, Austria · 11 Sep to 22 Nov 2026

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A wall-covering year-long calendar, drawn from runaway-slave notices, listing in charcoal the names, dates and places of people who escaped enslavement in the 17th to 19th centuries, with a recorded voice reading each day's names.

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