The Encyclopedia of Invisibility — a home for lost stories | Tavares Strachan

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Conceptual artist Tavares Strachan creates the kinds of projects that make you stop in your tracks, like a 4.5-ton block of Arctic ice he brought back to his birthplace in the Bahamas or a gold, Egyptian-inspired sculpture he launched into orbit around the Earth. Now he presents his latest creation, the Encyclopedia of Invisibility: a 3,000-page tome filled with more than 17,000 entries on people, places and events often left out of the history books -- and encourages us all to unearth hidden stories before they disappear to the passage of time.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.0	I'm Elise Hugh, it's Ted Talks Daily.
0:13.0	Who is left out of the history books?
0:16.0	What events or people or places around the globe
0:19.0	did we not learn about in school?
0:22.0	Conceptual artist Tavaris Strong set out to preserve vital,
0:26.0	lost stories, so they don't disappear with the passage of time.
0:31.0	In his talk from Ted 2023, he tells us how he does it after a break.
0:38.0	There's another podcast you might enjoy, it's called Am I Normal
0:41.0	from the Ted Audio Collective.
0:43.0	It's back with a new mini-series all about the stories behind the statistics.
0:48.0	What does adulthood mean in a place where more than three quarters of people
0:51.0	between ages 18 and 35 live with their parents?
0:55.0	What defines joy when you live in one of the top ranked countries for happiness?
0:59.0	Here from the people that make up every interesting data point.
1:02.0	Listen to Am I Normal, wherever you get your podcasts?
1:06.0	I really love lost stories.
1:12.0	So I'm from this very tiny, hot island in the middle of the Caribbean called NASA.
1:20.0	I distinctly remember the place being so small that I could land there,
1:26.0	shout from the airport, my brothers would somehow hear me,
1:31.0	and they would know to come and pick me up.
1:34.0	The North Pole, however, is an inusvitable frozen tundra
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