Figures and Sphinx, Gizeh, c.1945. Courtesy the Abushady Archive.
On Saturday April 12th at 4:45pm I'll be giving a talk about my archive project 'Memory Loss: Excavating the Abushady Family Archive' on a panel at NYU's Radical Archives Conference (April 11-12, 2014):
No Instructions for Assembly: Case Studies in Radical Archiving, with artists Joy Garnett and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Michelle Wong on her research at Asia Art Archive and Ian Alden Russell on his work with the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. Moderated by Steffani Jemison. Saturday 4/12, 4:45-6:00 pm
The conference and its website are ...organized around the notion of archiving as a radical practice, by which we mean: archives of radical politics and practices; archives that are radical in form or function; moments or contexts in which archiving in itself becomes a radical act; and considerations of how archives can be active in the present, as well as documents of the past and scripts for the future.
ABOUT the conference http://www.radicalarchives.net
Radical Archives is an online companion to the April 2014 conference at NYU, organized by Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh of Index of the Disappeared (with the invaluable assistance of Amita Manghnani) and presented by NYU's Asian/Pacific/American Institute as part of our 2013-14 residency at A/P/A. The conference is co-sponsored by NYU's History Department, Moving Image Archive Program, and Archives and Public History Program, along with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, the Asia Art Archive in America, and media partner Creative Time Reports. [...]
Full Schedule: and Registeration (register by Wednesday April 9th)
On Facebook
Conference participants
Both the conference and its website are organized around four threads of radical archival practice: Archives and Absence, or lost and counter-archives; Archives and Affect, or embodied archives; Archives and Ethics, or stealing from and for archives; and Archive as Constellation, or archive as method, medium, and interface.
The conference website is built to grow over time and serve as a resource for teaching, research and networking.....
My talk and panel are part of the latter (via conference site):
Archive as Constellation at the Radical Archives conference
The Archive as Constellation strand at the conference will include the following:
KEYNOTE by Lara Baladi (Cinema Tahrir, Arab Image Foundation) on the archive as site of resistance, Friday 4/11 at 10 am
PANELS
Disrupting Standards, Remaking Interfaces. With Hadassah Damien on OpenFlows, Eric Goldhagen on the Queer Zine Archive Project and xxZineCorexx, Jenna Freedman & Martha Tenney on the Barnard Library’s feminist approach to process and access, Zack Lischer-Katz on memory traces, and Anne Gilliland on a platform for radical archival description. Moderated by Alexander Provan of Triple Canopy. Friday 4/11, 11:05 am-1:00 pm (Cantor 101).
Collaborative Preservation Strategies: A Look Into XFR STN. With Johanna Burton, Andrea Callard, Colleen Fitzgibbon, Tara Hart, Alan W. Moore and Leeroy Kun Young Kang (moderator). Friday 5:00-6:30 pm (Cantor 102).
Radical Sampling: Archives Remixed and Remade. With Jennifer Burris and Park McArthur on Beverley Buchanan, G.D. Cohen on the Valaco Archive, and Brian Harnetty on the Sun Ra archive. Moderated by Sukhdev Sandhu. Friday 3:45-4:45 pm (Cantor 101).
No Instructions for Assembly: Case Studies in Radical Archiving, with artists Joy Garnett and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Michelle Wong on her research at Asia Art Archive and Ian Alden Russell on his work with the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. Moderated by Steffani Jemison. Saturday 4/12, 4:45-6:00 pm
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Once More to Pfaffs! A Walking Tour of A Living Archive led by Karen Karbiener (Space limited, not handicapped accessible). Saturday during lunch break, 1:30 – 2:15 pm.
SPAN Listening Sessions with Jules Rochielle and Carol Stakenas, times TBA (A/P/A Institute seminar room).
pilot press… (Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden), 10 am – 8 pm, Friday & Saturday (Cantor lobby)
XFR STN Viewing Station, Friday 10 am – 9:30 pm, Saturday 10 am – 6 pm (A/P/A Institute gallery)
