Ancestral Memory Enclaves: Diasporic memory and relational reconstruction
Mozilla Hubs
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
7–10pm ET / 4–7pm PT
Free
In this workshop, using “memory objects” – photos from personal archives of one’s family, chosen family, and/or historical records – as windows into ancestral moments, we will employ digital tools to speculatively re-create the space – and the feeling – around the view visible in each photo. Inspired by the re-existencia work of Kazakh artists Aisha Jandosova and Aida Issakhankyzy, the YA literature of Linda Sue Park, and the speculative fiction of Octavia Butler’s Patternmaster series, we will talk through different approaches to remembering and being in relationship with ancestral stories – through craft, through narrative, through sensory practices and through spatial reconstruction – and their meanings to those of us with minoritized or diasporic identities seeking re-connection or re-unification.
Each participant will build a virtual 3D space of care, based on a photo of their choosing (choice of photo will be in conversations ahead of the workshop). The workshop will be held within Mozilla Hubs (https://hubs.mozilla.com/).
Ancestral Memory Enclaves is facilitated by Jeffrey Yoo Warren and is presented in partnership with AS220.
Applications for this workshop are now closed.