Electric Dub Station is an ongoing project by visual artists Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic. Together, they reinterpret the transatlantic connections of indigo-blue textiles, which are deeply embedded with the history of western colonialism. In their work the indigo color represents the diasporic, cultural, and economic history of textile trade and memories of ancient spirits that are printed or saturated into the fabrics. Moreover, indigo is thought to have sacred ancestral powers, that are connected to transitional liminal spaces.

The textiles in the Electric Dub Station series are made using Ajrakh indigo block printing techniques. They were developed in the artist's studio in Amsterdam Oost and printed in the workshop of Sufiyan Khatri in Ajrakhpur, India. Ajrakh block printing is more than 4,000 years old. Indigo is a pigment extracted from the leaves of indigo bearing plants and it’s the oldest natural source of blue dye in the world. 

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