Impossible Archives: March 3

Monday, March 3rd, 5:30 pm
Kevorkian Center, NYU
Sullivan Street at Washington Square South, ground floor library
Admission: FREE

Participants:
Orit + Tal Halpern, Leslie Hewitt, Ramzi Kassem, Althea Wasow, Martha Wilson. Moderators: Chitra Ganesh + Mariam Ghani

Description:
This roundtable will explore legal, historical, professional and artistic strategies for archiving impossible (unspeakable, unutterable, censored, undocumented, disappeared or disappearing) materials. We will discuss the role of artists and activists as archivists of unofficial or suppressed histories; the various manifestations of archive fever; and the relationships between witnesses, testimony, memory and archives.

http://www.kabul-reconstructions.net/index/nyu.html

(image is film still from The Wannabe, directed by Althea Wasow, showing David Lemus' release from prison.)