Thao Ho starts her monthly radio show “liminal channels” on 29.11.23 with a radio-essay on radio in colonial Vietnam.
Liminal channels is a monthly radio show tracing the streamlines of global sonic and historical entanglements, and their unfolding in the city of Berlin. More information here.
Wassan Ali wird in ihrem Beitrag das Projekt “Geschichte bewahren, Geschichte im Entstehen” vorstellen (eng.) – ein Projekt, das darauf abzielt, die Geschichte von QTIBIPoC in das Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv zu bringen. Folgende Fragen werden zur Diskussion gestellt: Wie lässt sich ein Archivierungsprojekt mit postkolonialen Lehren wie dem “Verlernen des Imperialismus” (Ariella Azoulay) oder der Erklärung, dass “Opazität bewahrt werden muss” (Édouard Glissant), in Einklang bringen? Der Beitrag skizziert einige der Risiken, aber auch Affirmationen, die mit der Einbeziehung von Geschichte(n) verbunden sind, die im Allgemeinen nicht Teil des archivarischen Auftrags sind.
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Keynote address “Anger has a Sound: Black Feminist Frequencies” by Anne Potjans. More information here.
Elahe Haschemi Yekanis text “Queer Invisibility, Archival Poetry and Utopian In-Betweenness” has been published in the catalogue of the exhibition in German, English and Ukranian. More information on the exhibition itself can be found on Close[t] Demonstrations’ website. The full catalogue can be downloaded here.
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.
