Heritage AR/VR Project
FisherChild is a heritage project co-created with the Indigenous community of Kalk Bay in collaboration with Lodef Film Factory and Urchin Studios.
Rooted in intergenerational memory, it reclaims and reimagines post-apartheid spaces, exploring the politics of land and sea in an era where gentrification is the enduring legacy of apartheid’s spatial design. Through oral histories, lived experience, and creative expression, FisherChild celebrates the community’s enduring connection their deep and living relationship with the ocean and their ancestral land despite the barriers of spatial and social violence
- Download the Fisherchild AR App on the iPhone App Store.
- Buy a food jar
- Scan the image on the jar
Jars of preserves can be purchased directly from Traci.
“Preserve” is a play on words and the jars contain cultural food preserves like “gups” (alikreuk), vegetable atchar and see vy konfyt.
Fisherchild is an immersive experience which builds on the ancestral and archival work of sixth-generation fisher child Traci Kwaai.
Wall of Remembrance
“Sponsored by Orms Direct, “The Sea is In our Blood” powerfully and painfully remembers the erased, silenced and displaced memories of intersectional Indigenous ocean communities of False Bay. Whose histories are knotted and woven into stretched memories that span pre-colonial Indigenous !Xam, Khoi Khoi memory, through to when sea-faring and ocean fluent Indigenous peoples from Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Madagascar and East Africa were enslaved by Dutch and British in the early cape colony.”
Curated by Traci Kwaai
Project Fisher Child Audio Archives
Project Fisher Child is a multidisciplinary storytelling experience that weaves together VR, AR, and QR technologies. Each element offers a unique narrative that intersects and overlaps with the others, creating a rich, immersive journey. Whether you’re engaging on-site or from wherever you are, the stories remain accessible and impactful.
Produced in collaboration with Lo Def Film Factory and narrated by the fisher children of today, this audio archive is a powerful recollection and remembrance of Kalk Bay’s heritage.
EPISODES
Sites of Memory Episodes
True stories that amplify the indigenous community of Kalk Bay.