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What are the possibilities and limitations of using archives in audiovisual and artistic projects? How can ethnographers and artists collaborate to imagine new lives for archives?
As decades of collaborative and intercultural work have shown, state and institutional archives are mired in colonial structures and deeply entrenched inequities that have historically disempowered and dispossessed indigenous peoples and other communities.
Filmmakers, artists, and anthropologists, however, have worked to reimagine, reclaim, and deploy archives in more expansive ways, emphasizing collective rights to access, intervene and recreate documents, photographs, films, objects, and other media in creative and powerful ways.
Archival Politics Online Event (June 13/14)
Archival Politics Online Event (June 13/14)
In ARCHIVAL POLITICS, two collectives of young indigenous women from Mexico and Australia will share how they use archival materials in their audiovisual production and artistic practices. Rosalba López López (Mazahua), Sashenka Hernández Estrada (P'urhépecha) and Orión Marín of Sembradoras Audiovisuales will be in conversation with Maya Hodge (Lardil) and Kate ten Buuren (Taungurung) to discuss how they view the relationship between their mediamaking, archival sources, and the work they perform in transmitting knowledge to the next generation, as well as imagining new narratives and stories. Anthropologists Gabriela Zamorano (CIESAS Ciudad de México), Sabra Thorner (Mount Holyoke College), and Sandra Rozental (El Colegio de México) will guide the conversation.
June 13, 5pm Mexico City | June 14, 9am Melbourne
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/CoMMPCTArchives
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