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Saturday, October 9th, 5-8pm
Guest speaker: Pelin Tan

WebEx link for the meeting:

https://kbb.webex.com/kbb-de/j.php?MTID=m3c6cd4eab53aac9adef7d7f14be6bd06

Readings, Links:

1. Pelin Tan, Surpassing Disaster: Haunted by an Imaginary Smyrna, eflux

2. Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (2002) -- we are sharing the book pdf attached, we recommend the last chapter: The Archive and Testimony.

3. Autonomous Archiving On the Necropolitics - Decolonizing Archiving, Pelin Tan (2016)

4. https://bak.ma/ bak.ma digital media archive of social movements

>> Links from Pelin (archival projects she mentioned at her talk)

https://idea.matera-basilicata2019.it/en/exhibition/de-archiving-dwelling

https://urgentpedagogies.iaspis.se/

Pelin Tan's pp presentation: https://bak.ma/documents/YW

Pelin Tan is a researcher based in Mardin/Turkey. Professor in Film at the Fine Arts Academy of Batman University, Turkey. She is a Senior Researcher of the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Boston. Researcher at the Architecture Faculty, Thesally University, Greece; and guest research professor at Filmschool, Kabelvag, Norway. Tan is the 6th recipient of Keith Haring Art & Activism and she was visiting fellow of CCS Bard and the Human Rights Program of Bard College, New York (2020). She co-directed films on the future of art with artist Anton Vidokle. Tan's work has been exhibited in Istanbul Design Biennial (2020), Istanbul Biennial (2007, 2015), Montreal Biennial (2013), Bergen Assembly (2014), and others. She is curating "Urgent Pedagogies" by IASPIS, CAD+SR project “Land, Cultivation and Care". Tan is a member of Arazi Assembly a critical spatial practice research collective in Mardin. She runs "Threshold Infrastructure" at Radio Al-Hara, Palestine.

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Saturday, November 13th, 5-7pm

Guest: Dagmar Brunow

Digital Excursion: Bildwechsel Archive
WebEx link for the meeting:

https://kbb.webex.com/kbb-de/j.php?MTID=mf64654138c5f5e18168d2b1def81b24b

Readings, Links:

1. Dagmar Brunow, “Queering the Archive Amateur films and LGBT+ memory”

2. NAMING, SHAMING, FRAMING? The ambivalence of queer visibility in audio-visual archives, Dagmar Brunow

3. bildwechsel archive

4. Stephen Russell, “The woman who built New York’s ‘herstory’ archive recalls love and hate”, 2020.

5. Jamie Ann Lee, “A Queer/ed Archival Methodology: Archival Bodies as Nomadic Subjects,” In: Critical Archival Studies, Michelle Caswell, Ricardo Punzalan, and T-Kay Sangwand (eds.), Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 1, no.2, 2017.

Dagmar Brunow is associate professor in Film Studies at Linnaeus University (Sweden). Her research interests centre
around the curation of access to film archives, around cultural memory, video collectives and queer cinema. She is also part of the programmers’ collective at the Hamburg International Queer Film Festival (Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage).

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Saturday, January 8th, 5-8pm

Digital Excursion: Lili Elbe-Archiv (Niki Trauthwein)

WebEx link for the meeting:

https://kbb.webex.com/kbb-de/j.php?MTID=mb998b61746bbe6c08ae2bc1571fa6932

Readings, Links:

1. Lili-Elbe-Archiv

2. Naz Cuguoglu, “The Archive of Feelings”, 2019.

3. Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2003. -- we are sharing the book pdf above, we recommend the introduction chapter.

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Saturday, Jan 15, 5-8 pm

Digital Excursion: Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst (Markus Ruff)

WebEx link for the meeting:

https://kbb.webex.com/kbb-de/j.php?MTID=m487831e4bd29c0e8ef3d8dd4fb4befa4

Readings, Links:

1. Arsenal Living Archive Project

2. Archive außer sich

3. Annet Dekker (ed.), Lost and Living (in) Archives: Collectively Shaping New Memories, 2017. (Introduction)

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Saturday, Feb 5th, 5-8 pm

Guest: Mela Dávila-Freire

WebEx link for the meeting:

https://kbb.webex.com/kbb-de/j.php?MTID=m088f3f5e6ebede583a96ac62b5f44f9f

Readings, Links:

1. Archives of the Commons II. The Anomic Archive, RedCSur, 2021

2. (Im)possible Counter-Archives

Mela Dávila Freire focuses on the conceptual and physical intersection between contemporary art and archives. She develops organizational models in which the management of documentary collections is inseparable from the promotion of research to increase visibility in the public sphere and accessibility to the audience. She has worked for the documenta archiv in Kassel, the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid), the Lafuente Archive in Santander and other public and private institutions and collections.

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1. Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995).

2. Shaina Anand (Pad.ma), “Ten Thesis on the Archive” In: Autonomous Archiving, Artıkişler Collective (ed.), dpr-barcelona, 2016, pp. 79-97.

3. Four texts by Franco Berardi (Bifo)
“Beyond the Breakdown: Three Meditations on a Possible Aftermath” >>https://bit.ly/386DwYq

“Desire, Pleasure, Senility, and Evolution” >> https://bit.ly/38T7GNT

“Game Over” >> https://bit.ly/397srG3

“Extinction, Rebellion, Happiness” >> https://bit.ly/3o6ONh0