As part of the workshop The Elusive “Global”: Potential Histories of Art and Media, Ruhr-University Bochum, Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen will talk about “Archive Interventions”.
Academic writers (e.g. Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe), poets (e.g. M. NourbeSe Philip, Layli Long Soldier) and visual artists (e.g. Sung Tieu, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński) intervene directly into the documents of the historical archive, with the aim to “sense it more”, “to really see”, to take “revenge”. They redact, cut out, “kill” the instruments of colonial oppression, text and image. I want to highlight the affective urgency of these interventions, not in opposition to but also not identical with an analytical interest. Archival violences here are felt ‘personally’, they demand a ‘personal’ response. These interventions, I believe, are less oriented towards institutional change, but rather take seriously the immediate effects of the material. What can be learned from the way artists and scholars inscribe themselves ‘personally’ into the text for post-colonial or de-colonial studies? I will present examples and discuss mostly visual strategies.
More information here https://das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/the-elusive-global-potential-histories-of-art-and-media/
On the 12 of December, 2024, Prof. Elahe Haschemi Yekani will deliver a talk titled “Ignatius Sancho’s Familiar Digressions” as part of the workshop Black Diasporic Knowledges before 1800: Writing Subjects, Intersectional Interventions, hosted by the University of Bayreuth (online).
Ein Artikel von Elahe Haschemi Yekani in der Geschichte der Gegenwart beleuchtet die Kontinuität rassistischer Gewalt, betont die Notwendigkeit, Opferperspektiven anzuerkennen, und untersucht die Rolle von Kunst als wichtiges Medium für Erinnerung, Aufklärung und Protest.
Link zum Artikel : https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/kunst-als-gegenarchiv-der-dokumentarfilm-18-minuten-zivilcourage/
November 16, 3-5 pm
Aquarium am Südblock, Skalitzer Str. 6, 10999 Berlin
In this event, visual and performance artist, activist and archivist kimura byol lemoine will talk about zer history of return.
Organized by the ERC Consolidator Grant Project “Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in cooperation with korientation. Netzwerk für Asiatisch-Deutsche Perspektiven e.V.
Thao Ho will present a paper on her dissertation research at the annual German Studies Association in Atlanta (GA). More information TBA.
https://www.thegsa.org/conference/current-conference
Workshop hosted by Goethe-Institute Hanoi and A Queer Museum on archives in collaboration with TODO (Thao Ho), and Schwules Museum Berlin. More information TBA.
Thao Ho will participate and give a workshop at Nổ Cái Bùm Festival (Đà Nẵng-Hội An) with cultural practitioner Bich Ngoc Luu. Festival publication and more information tba.
https://www.facebook.com/nocaibum.hue
AN(8)X Festival 15-17.08.2024: shards, shards, whisper and flare. Roundtable with AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research), DECOLONIZE, and DAMN* on research, artistic, and (political) organising practices. More information tba.
Writing the Archive #2: BIPoC und jüdische Koalitionen in den 1990er Jahren
Gemeinsam lesen wir über lesbisch-feministische Koalitionen zwischen “Immigrantinnen, Schwarzen deutschen, jüdischen und im Exil lebende Frauen,” die in den 1990er Jahren in Deutschland stattgefunden haben. Ausgangspunkt sind zwei Kongresse in Bremen und Köln, die als Reaktion auf die Zunahme rassistisch motivierter Gewalt, aber auch vor dem Hintergrund gemeinsamer Ausgrenzungserfahrungen in der weißen Frauenbewegung organisiert wurden. Unter Anleitung von Wassan Ali und Farzada Farkhooi.
Culture jamming against the war, traumatic amnesia and notes on despair: attendees read passages from the Anti-War Zine by Bianca Ortiz and others on the U.S. invasion on Iraq in 2003. We end the session by reflecting in writing on queer love and human rights in times of warfare. Facilitated by Wassan Ali and Farzada Farkhooi.
Screening & round table: “Tatort – Am Tag der wandernden Seelen” on affect, memory, city politics, representation in film with Lichtenberg district mayor Martin Schaefer (CDU), city councilman Kevin Hönicke (SPD), and Thao Ho (Tales of Diasporic Ordinary, HU Berlin), organised and moderated by Max Müller (Affective Societies, FU Berlin). 08.05.2024, UCI Marzahn
