Against Erasure: art and archives under oppression

Schedule

Sun Nov 24 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

2 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Edinburgh, SC

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How do we challenge oppression when it seeks to obscure the very fabric of history and truth?
In Pleasure Gardens, Skye Arundhati Thomas and co-author Izabella Scott seek to make visible the conditions of the military occupation and blackouts in Kashmir. In her work, Rosa Campbell disrupts ideas of ‘canon’ and margin.They are joined by journalist and documentary film-maker Zozan Yasar to investigate the role of art and archives when oppression takes the form of erasure.
The unseen is a strategy of oppression - this is how our stories are made seen again.
The event is hosted by Tatevik Sargsyan.
Our speakers:
Skye Arundhati Thomas is a writer and editor from India. Their first book Remember the Details, on viral images, courtrooms, and a brief history of a protest movement, is out with Floating Opera Press, and their second, Pleasure Gardens (co-written with Izabella Scott) on constitutional law, military occupation and communications blackouts is out now with Mack Books, as is their third, on the painter Lalitha Lajmi, with Sternberg Press. From 2021-24 they were co-editor of The White Review. They are currently international curator-in-residence at the Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris.
Zozan Yasar is a Kurdish journalist, documentary filmmaker, and researcher based in Scotland. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She co-produced the documentary My (Refugee) Life and co-directed the short film We Depend on Each Other, both of which explore the challenges faced by displaced communities. In her work, Zozan focuses on the complex intersections of conflict, gender, displacement, and humanitarian crises. She has worked with media outlets such as The New Humanitarian, Voice of America, and Internews, and her writing has appeared in publications like The Guardian, BBC, Vice News, and the Humanitarian Practice Network. Her experience covers diverse regions, including the Middle East, the UK, Europe, North and East Syria/Rojava, Iraqi Kurdistan, Central Africa, and the US.

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