Alongside five artists from the East and Southeast Asian region, and presented in collaboration with An Viet Archives and activist archives, this exhibition seeks to re-remember ESEA histories and resistance through decolonial forms of memory-making. By imagining through the gaps and silences embedded in archives, we hope to reconstruct different modes of remembrance, calling on traditions, practices, and ancestral wisdom to inform the construction of collective memory.
Elements from Counter Archive’s collection, includes a series of zines on alternative histories and a digital database, will also be displayed. In addition, Counter Archives will lead a workshop on memory-making Performing the Archive, which will run at intervals throughout the exhibition. This workshop intends to allow attendees to sit, reflect, and create their own archives by using different materials to superimpose the present onto the past.
Performing the Archive Workshop Sessions:
1pm-2pm
4pm-5pm
TW: Gendered, queer and sexual violences during atrocities.