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Sat 23 Nov
11:00 - 16:00

at Museum of the Home 

Whose Histories: Artist talk and family archives workshop

11:00 - 13:00 | Family archives workshop (led by Emily Beswick)

14:00 - 16:00 | Artist talk (Margarita Galandina, Mehmil Nadeem, Clare Chun-yu Liu)

Family photographs do not just tell stories about families, but also communities. They are valuable sources of information, especially for diaspora histories that are often absent from museums and archives. This 2-part event brings together the works of researchers and artists whose inventive use of family archives in their practice opened up alternative histories and de-colonial ways of seeing.

Margarita Galandina reinterprets her Buryad-Mongol heritage through performing and re-staging family albums and anthropological photographs of indigenous Syberians. Clare Chun-yu Liu’s artist films create imaginary dialogues where her own family history of migration intersects with the wider histories of Chinoiserie to explore the (im)possibilities of diasporic Chineseness. The playful collage of family photos in Mehmil Nadeem’s kinetic photo-sculptures and ceramics drew attention to the unreliability of memories while echoing Pakistan’s colonial history.

The artist talk will be preceded by a creative weaving workshop led by Emily Bewsick to explore the common themes amongst our family photographs. Together we will make weaving works inspired by Vietnamese American Artist Dinh Q. Lê, and reflect on the common threads that make up our collective histories.

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