The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera is a thematic reflection on the archive and its discontents. Washington’s identity as the seat of American political power is amplified through its role as the locus of its own memorialization. Where there is history, there is haunting. By drawing on the archive’s unnerving, uncanny, and ephemeral specters, this exhibition is an effort to re-imagine and reposition archives as sites which not only have the capacity to produce and contest historical memory, but also generate significant gaps and blind spots.
In 2013 I collaborated with The Endangered Archives Project at the British Library. EAP rescues collections that may otherwise have been lost. I have looked...
These prints represent what was lost as a series of early botanical prints was converted into a contemporary “lossless” image format and archived online. In...
<p>The disappearance, a dramatic trend that would relate to the poetics of the trace and its gradual fading (Ana Mendieta) or even what Derrida called...</p>
Datatrack is an audio-photo series about the inscriptions and traces, the flows and circulation patterns, the spaces, things and materialities that music and sound files...
Over the last two years of research in southwest Alaska, I’ve developed a feel for the region’s history as I’ve been tracking down the history...
This video is a collaboration between Anna Laine and the diaspora artists Reginald S. Aloysius, Hari Rajaledchumy, Anushiya Sundaralingam, Sabes Sugunasabesan and Arunthathi Ratnaraj. It...
In association with camra and collaborating curator Arjun Shankar, Ethnographic Terminalia presents: Bad Friday Goes to Africa In August of 2012, Arjun Shankar and Mariam...
In association with camra and collaborating curator Arjun Shankar, Ethnographic Terminalia presents: REACH in Ambler (REACH = Resources for Education and Action for Community Health)...
In association with camra and collaborating curator Arjun Shankar, Ethnographic Terminalia presents: Sweet Tea Sweet Tea, a feature-length experimental/ethnographic documentary, will follow the personal and...
In association with camra and collaborating curator Arjun Shankar, Ethnographic Terminalia presents: The Ward: Dubois and Oral Histories The Ward is a community organization dedicated...
In 2012, my fieldwork took me to various land record offices and state archives in Mumbai, in order to find information relating to land records...
In Animate: A Multispecies Ethnography, a multimedia (video/film and sculpture) installation, is part of an ongoing project in sensory ethnography at the Carousel of Happiness,...
AgX is an art-science project about material memory and forgetting; it features time-lapse macro-photography of photographic negatives being chemically destroyed. This project is comprised of...
A study of the confluences of monotony, choreography, and spectacle in labor, Bridge Tender is an opening and closing sequence of Maine’s last manually operated...
A bent toothbrush, a pipe, a trashbag, an engagement ring, perfume bottles… A photographer and social scientists sought out objects that focus on decision-making for...
This installation repurposes Bemba language analog material from and about one of Zambia’s most famous radio personalities. Originally collected in Zambia between 1986 and 1990...
Transnational trends in documentary photography have recently taken a “domestic turn”, focusing on everyday scenes and objects in home spaces. This newfound attention to domestic...
My practice explores the duality of the artefact as simultaneously the archaeological term of a recovered object of cultural significance, as well as the scientific...
18 and half minutes is part of a group of works that explore the concept of Social Amnesia and the politics behind memory through research...
The Schizophonic Archive is comprised of three interrelated projects exploring recorded sound, residual media, and archives. Stairwell: Lina Dib with Navid Navab Schizo-Phone: Craig Campbell...
The Schizophonic Archive is comprised of three interrelated projects exploring recorded sound, residual media, and archives. Stairwell: Lina Dib with Navid Navab Schizo-Phone: Craig Campbell...
The Schizophonic Archive is comprised of three interrelated projects exploring recorded sound, residual media, and archives. Stairwell: Lina Dib with Navid Navab Schizo-Phone: Craig Campbell...
This film examines how the archive, at the intersection of concept and matter, can be understood as a site, and how this can be visualised...
For over one hundred years, photographs have played a critical role in capturing, representing and provoking discussion on social movements and cultural events. In our...
How to archive ‘sound’ in a more engaging and contextual way? This work employs the factory sounds which the ethnographer Xinyuan Wang recorded in the...
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