Join us for Embodied Memory, Archive and Repair, a Study Day produced by The Culture Team.
The day will be respond to Collateral Echoes, a new moving-image installation presented at Site Gallery as part of DocFest’s Alternate Realities programme. This immersive work invites viewers to reflect on questions of memory, violence and intergenerational witness in a time of digital fragmentation and political unrest.
“I think there’s a psychic aspect to the ways in which it – at least in psychoanalytic theory, there’s a sense when things are too unbearable to face, they’re actually too painful to acknowledge. Both we as Black people say, are being victims and continue to be victims of this racial structuring, that’s hard to bear (and hard) to really face up to. But more importantly, those who are implicated in the doing of racism and racial structuring and racial thinking find it too hard to really own and face up to as the precursor to changing it.” – Gail Lewis’ reflections in response to the themes of Collateral Echoes
The Study Day will offer space for deeper engagement with the themes of Collateral Echoes, bringing together academics, researchers and community practitioners through workshops, conversations and collective reflection.
