Lab — Archiving, writing and performance as practices of reflexion and critique

This lab explores how performance generates traces, memories, and narratives, and how writing can operate as a method for activating and re-reading these materials. The laboratory will include contributions from archival practices and projects, which trace not only histories of art and performance, but connect these histories to ongoing social and political landscapes. Participants will be invited to experiment with writing, discussion, and collective reflection as ways of responding to archival material and its relationship to the city. The session asks how archival practices might participate in processes of memory, and how performance has operated within movements to remember, resist erasure, and hold collective histories in the present. — performingborders