Kidus Hailesilassie’s design merges the boundaries between spatial practice and futures informed by Africa and its diasporic conditions. With a background in architecture and speculative world-building, his works focus on the hybrid nature of reimagining transcontinental archives to form counter-narratives of Black consciousness.
In the past, Kidus has collaborated with international artists and institutes such as Studio Other Spaces, Studio Olafur Eliasson, Forum des Images, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA), and Contemporary And (C&). As a former EDGE fellow at SCI-Arc, he holds an MA in Fiction and Entertainment with a focus on emerging technologies. In 2022, Kidus co-founded Guada Labs an art, film, and new media practice based in Los Angeles.
While at OpenDocLab, he is working on The Culture Archive, a multi-media immersive experience of an AI-generated language archive from the continent of Africa and its diaspora.