'Counter Archives: On Acts of Resistance and Remembrance'

Overview

Join us for a film screening and workshop that explore how memories and embodied histories can act as queer forms of resistance.

esea contemporary co-presents with Queer East, ‘Counter Archives: On Acts of Resistance and Remembrance’, a film screening and workshop that explore how memories and embodied histories can act as feminist and queer forms of resistance in the face of erasure.

Silences within historical narratives are often encoded in archives, where underrepresented histories are written out and marginalised experiences omitted. Embodied experiences of gendered violence during slavery, genocide, and war remain fundamentally unrepresentable, their traces at risk of being lost from dominant narratives

Through seven audiovisual artworks and a participatory workshop, ‘Counter Archives: On Acts of Resistance and Remembrance’ turns towards fables, land, bodies, and communities to decolonise the archive and reimagine how we might honour alternative histories beyond institutional frameworks. The programme invites audiences to engage with different ways of re-remembering and reanimating suppressed pasts through collective acts of storytelling and creation.

The screening will be followed by a workshop led by Sarah Chew and Cheryl Ho, where participants will explore collaging and zine-making as decolonial practices of re-remembering—superimposing the present onto the past to reclaim erased narratives and envision new forms of remembrance.

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