Safe Havens Freedom Talks (SH|FT) presents a Freedom Talk at Archives and Resistance livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Friday 18 November 2022 at 8:30 a.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 13:30 GMT (London, UTC +0) / 2:30 p.m. CET (Stockholm, UTC +1).
Following a collection of conversations specializing in the scenario of inventive freedom in varied nations this 12 months, Safe Havens Freedom Talks (SH|FT) presents a panel titled “How Archives and Archival Interventions Can Challenge Power.” This occasion presents a dialogue, together with visible shows of speaker artists between three creatives.
Moderated by an archivist and an arts curator Yvette Ramirez (United States/Bolivia), this Freedom Talk options artists and archivists Lesia Pcholka (Belarus) and Lia Dostlieva (Ukraine). While usually considered on the nationwide and institutional degree, archives may also be private, hyperlocal, and ephemeral websites of reminiscence created and skilled by way of our day-to-day existence. This occasion will have interaction in conversations of how archival interventions, by selection or necessity, can provide pathways for reflection, the preservation of native histories, and house for subversive resistance to the official file.
About Freedom Talks
The Freedom Talks collection is targeted on points concerning threats in direction of inventive freedom, free press, and intangible heritage. It is intently related to the annual world Safe Havens convention. Guests within the Freedom Talks collection are extremely educated and prolific actors within the world Arts Rights Justice sector–preventing for inventive freedom. The Freedom Talks purpose to share house and broaden the narrative of who can take middle stage by lending the model to totally different organizations throughout the sector. The talks are offered in, or translated into, English. The talks will be watched by way of our web site and thru our companion HowlRound Theatre Commons, the place earlier occasions are archived.
The Participants at Archives and Resistance
Lesia Pcholka is an artist, archivist and activist. Her work explores on a regular basis life and reminiscence and is research-based in addition to para-disciplinary. She earned her diploma in Social Psychology from the Minsk Innovation University and attended worldwide instructional applications, together with ArtPlatform, the East-European School of Political Studies, Sputnik Photos, and others. In 2017, she based a VEHA archive—a self-organized initiative that unites members to review and protect the cultural heritage, archival images, and visible historical past of Belarus. From 2018 to 2020, Lesia was a member of the Belarusian Association of Photographers. In 2020-2021, Lesia taught an creator’s course on the European College for Liberal Arts in Belarus. Following the 2020 in style protests in Belarus, Lesia was prosecuted on political grounds and imprisoned; subsequently, she was pressured to flee from Belarus.
Lia Dostlieva is an artist, cultural anthropologist, and essayist. Primary areas of Lia’s analysis embrace the problems of collective trauma, postmemory, commemorative practices, and company and visibility of weak teams. As an artist, Lia works throughout a variety of media together with images, installations, textile sculptures, and so forth. since 2012.
Yvette Ramirez is an archivist, researcher and humanities administrator primarily based in Detroit, Michigan. She is impressed by the ability of community-centered archives to additional discover the complexities of data transmission and reminiscence inside diasporic Andean and Indigenous Latinx communities. As an unbiased archivist, Yvette has collaborated with the Tishman Environment and Design Center on the New School, Myriad, DanceATL, the Digital Preservation Unit at The University of Michigan Library, and Greenthumb NYC. Currently, Yvette is a PhD scholar on the University of Michigan’s School of Information, the place she additionally acquired her Master’s in Information Science. She can be a Publications Board member on the Society of American Archivists in addition to co-founding member of the collective Archivistas en Espanglish.
The occasion is organized by the unbiased worldwide nonprofit Safe Havens Freedom Talks (SH|FT) by way of collaborations throughout the world Arts Rights Justice sector, and Safemuse graciously helps as its mentoring group within the start-up interval. SH|FT is supported by The Swedish Arts Council beneath the Programme for Artistic Freedom, funded by Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and the Freedom Talks are sponsored by the Swedish Institute. The exhibition and platform challenge is funded by the Swedish Postcode Foundation.