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Archived ruptures – Ruptured archives. Collaboration, intervention, resistance, 28-29 November

 

 

 

International workshop:

Archived ruptures – Ruptured archives.

Collaboration, intervention, resistance

To explore the role of ruptures in archives, the workshop highlights processes of radical change and dis:continuity in archives and private collections. Understanding ruptures as ‘a moment at which value emerges through a break’ (Holbraad, Kapferer and Sauma 2019), the title Archived ruptures – Ruptured archives indicates not only the sensitive nature of collective and private archives, their histories, objects, sites and infrastructures of memory and knowledge production of conflictual pasts, but also the sensitive engagement and scholarship (Stoller 2009) in, with and about archives.

 

 

 

 

Artists, activists and scholars from various disciplines will present their work with archived objects, materials (e.g. sound files, documents, films, photographs, textiles, etc.), institutions and museums to show a variety of ruptures and their impacts on alternative histories, memory production, community building and resistance. With hands-on presentations, theoretical and object-based discussions, the workshop as well as the open exhibition lab are productive spaces to explore questions such as ‘how do ruptures in/with archives look?’, ‘can ruptures become a turning point of memory, resistance and empowerment for those whose voices have been silenced in such archives?’, ‘what does sensitive scholarship and practice-based research in archives mean?’, ‘can collaboration with as well as intervention and resistance in archival collections support alternative understandings of conflicted pasts and memories?’, ‘to what extent are archive ruptures related to socio-cultural changes or changing relationships between societies (e.g. de/colonisation, conflicts or crises)?’

Concept and organisation: Cathrine Bublatzky

Venues:

28 November: Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Museum 5 Kontinente

29 November: Gallery Karin Sachs, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (LMU Munich)

Please register here by 20 November.

The workshop programme can be downloaded here. For the flyer of the open exhibition lab, please click here.