Possibility: Difficult Archives, Difficult Memories (Exhibition)
When and Where
Description
The Transformative Memory International Network (TMIN), in collaboration with the Transnational Justice Project at the University of Toronto, Queens University, and the University of British Columbia, is pleased to announce MemoLab 2024, entitled, "Possibility: Difficult Archives, Difficult Memories” from June 18th to 22nd 2024. By interrogating absence in the archive as well as its possibilities, MemoLab 2024 invites the university community and the public to explore art as a catalyst for social change and transformation. It asks how we can rectify the lives of those obscured by land dispossession, violence, and the aftermath of plantation slavery, while also opening domains of creative possibility? Through an art exhibit, musical and spoken word performances, and scholarly engagement, Memolab will explore loss and dispossession by rendering absence present.
Collective Exhibition June 18-22
MemoLab 2024 will host a public Collective Exhibition entitled Mapping and Reimaging Difficult Archives, Difficult Memories at It’s OK* Studios, 468 Queen Street West, second floor. The exhibition will offer an opportunity to explore diverse visual, audio-visual, and interactive artwork. The exhibit will be open to the public throughout the week -- from June 19th to Saturday 22nd from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, with a special launch opening on June 18th at 6:00 pm.
There is also a Public-facing event on June 22. Visit the event page for more information.
For more information, email Kamari Clarke or Ricardo Medina.
Acknowledgement of financial support
This initiative is funded primarily by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) with support from the Jackman Humanities Institute, the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar and the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies’ Transnational Justice Project and the Cluster for the Study of Racism and Inequality. The public-facing event, the collective exhibition, and the art exhibit launch are FREE and Open to the Public.
