Thao Ho presented her research on the intersection of archival work and decolonial activism at the workshop titled “Lively Metaphors in Preservation Practices: Sex and Death,” organised by Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s queer and trans archives (PERCOL) in Amsterdam. Taking place on 2 & 3 November 2023, the closed workshop was held in collaboration with the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision. The two-day event, generously hosted by the two institutions, aims to facilitate an exchange between museum professionals, scholars, and practitioners working with trans and queer archives. Participants are asked to actively contribute in the form of a short input on the different potentialities and difficulties connected to dealing with trans and queer collections.
Conversation around cross-cultural challenges around communications about race and diversity with Anne Potjans during one installment of a U.S. Embassy internal event series.
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In this workshop for queer BIPoC, we will turn our attention to the lesser-known stories of the Spinnboden Lesbian Archive—an inquiry into documents that recount lesbian-queer, racialised, diasporic, and (post-)migrant lives.
We will read and discuss excerpts on archiving from decolonial and intersectional perspectives, as well as engage with the collection, the aim being to probe absences and traces, and to possibly counter problematic historical records. The workshop draws on the thoughts of Saidiya Hartman, Chela Sandoval and Anjali Arondekar, i.a.
Each participant will produce a written or sonic input that will be presented in the form of an intermedial zine.
Spätifunk[fenster] is a project co-organized by Thao Ho in which she puts research questions that she came across during her first semester as part of “Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary” into practice: How can we understand the concept of diasporic tales, diasporic ordinary, archive (oral history), and aesthetics (How to reproduce and display marginalized stories beyond representation? How can the inevitable practice of (self-)extraction look like through a less violent process?)
The installations can be found in Berliner Spätis (late-night shops) and other public spaces, and give an insight into the visual and auditory documentation of conversations with Späti owners about their late-night shop, experiences with the so-called Sunday regulation, the ban on outdoor seating, gentrification and the everyday encounters in their neighbourhood.
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Fenja Akinde-Hummel will Interview Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin about his book Der Messias von Darfur. More information here.
Thao Ho will present their collective research project (with Emma lo and Hany Tea) at the (re)searching urbanity symposium.
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Fenja Akinde-Hummel will be participating in a discussion on “movement(s) and collectives” in Berlin. With a Keynote from David Scott, and a discussion with various Black organisations in Berlin.
The talk is accessible on YouTube here.
Anne Potjans will give a talk on “Shameful Shame – Abjection, Agency, and Angry Black Women” at the workshop “Autobiographical Writing and the Gestalt of Shame: Disability, Chronic Illness and Mental Distress in Conetemporay Intersectional Life Storying,” organized by Prof. Dr. Katrin Röder.
