The first migration is of the objects, generating professional care, scrupulous documentation, and generous hospitality in museums and archives: they are the (relatively) well-documented. She writes, ‘Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums.’ We ask what kind of understanding and approach to an archiving practice can ‘unlearn’, and even ‘reverse’ the dominant and imperial modes of engagement that determine our professional habitus and existing practices in photography and archival work?Īzoulay’s film Un-Documented shows that there is a strong connection between the plundered objects in European museums and the calls of asylum seekers trying to enter the countries of their former European colonizers: these are twinned migrations. Azoulay will introduce and discuss her book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (2019), as well as her film Un-documented: Undoing Imperial Plunder with scholar and author, Wayne Modest. The online screening of the film will be an entry point for this conversation.Īzoulay argues that the institutions that are constitutive of our culture and civilization, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights as well as history itself, are all determined by imperialist logics. > REGISTER A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent to all registered participants the day before the event.Īnnenstrasse 53 is an independent Exhibiting Space that, in conversation with local institutions, artists and architects, is actively working towards a praxis that questions norms and encompasses a process of ‘unlearning’ within teaching, research, artistic production, and exhibiting. As a pivotal step to establish and articulate this praxis, we announce the Opening Statement of this space. Please join us (online) for a conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay and Wayne Modest.
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