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5:00 PM-6:00 PM, EST

Archives as Sites of Black Joy

Workshop/Keynote|Networks of the Black Atlantic

  • Goethe-Institut Montreal, Montreal

  • Language English.
  • Price Free of charge. Please reserve a ticket.

Symposium « Réseaux de l’Atlantique noir : patrimoines, savoirs et solidarités » © Nigra Iuventa

Symposium « Réseaux de l’Atlantique noir : patrimoines, savoirs et solidarités » © Nigra Iuventa

What would it mean for us to reimagine the Archives – not as mechanisms for whiteness and control, but as sanctuaries for liberation and as generators of continuity? What if Archives were nesting places for revolutionary Black joy?

Building on her imagination practice, Archivist Melissa J. Nelson shares the development of a radical grassroots Black activist archive for Wildseed Centre for Art + Activism as grounds for possibilities. Melissa invites us to expand our imagination beyond the confines of colonial imaginaries to build reparative archives of multiplicity. Black archives have the potential to create sacred space for holding, re-witnessing, and remembering Black life. These spaces can open gateways for visioning Black futurities.

Presented by Melissa J. Nelson

Agenda

  • Collective memory made possible by document donations

    Workshop | Networks of the Black Atlantic

    • Artexte, Montreal

  • The Ethics of Aesthetics – New Methods for Art Criticism

    Workshop/Presentation | Networks of the Black Atlantic

    • Artexte, Montreal

  • Joy as Curatorial Practice

    Panel | Réseaux de l'Atlantique noir

    • daphne, Montreal

  • Archives as Sites of Black Joy

    Workshop/Keynote | Networks of the Black Atlantic

    • Goethe-Institut Montreal, Montreal