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  EVENTS

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WORKSHOP

Ancestral Memory Enclaves: Diasporic memory and relational reconstruction

Mozilla Hubs
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
7–10pm ET / 4–7pm PT
$35 (scholarships available)

Due to high demand, CultureHub is opening a second round of Ancestral Memory Enclaves led by Jeffrey Yoo Warren. Registration is open by invitation only to folks who were wait listed in the first round.

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/).

This workshop is currently full.

Image Description: In black and white a child with closely cropped hair wearing a long-sleeve shirt and pants reaches gently to observe one of many papers tacked in several rows to a tall fence of raw wood slats. A tree peeks from behind the fence and an upturned roof common in East Asian architecture peeks from behind a stone white barrier next to the fence several feet from the child. The image at first seems as one, but each component is actually collaged together to form one image, the borders between separate images fitting together close to perfectly.