• Tue 25 06 2019 •
MEMORY LAB #4 Her*stories – Memory Lab goes Emanzenexpress/ For an intersectional and feminist perspective of archives

with MAREIKE BERNIEN, EVA BUSCH, YASMINE EID-SABBAGH, JULIA NITSCHKE and MIRIAM YOSEF

From May to July 2019, Eva Busch and Julia Nitschke from the Bochum art space atelier automatique will be examining examples of feminist resistance in Bochum of the 1980s and 1990s in an artistic research project. Their exhibition Emanzenexpress-Gemeinam sind wir gemeiner delves deep into historical documents such as leaflets, newspapers, zines, books and tape recordings of such feminist archives as the ausZeiten FRAUENARCHIV, the MADONNA e.V. and the Frauen*bibliothek LIESELLE in order to learn things useful in today’s practice. In a conversation with the human rights researcher and activist Miriam Yosef and the artists Mareike Bernien and Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh, they will explore what an anti-racist intersectional feminist archive can look like, based on the experiences of the project. What are the characteristics of critical feminist archiving, understood as social practice? How to create alliances that open up spaces of solidarity for community building? What role is played by questions of race, class or gender? How important are safe spaces? And to what extent can digital media technologies democratize the apparatuses of knowledge production?

Based on the project experiences, Mareike Bernien and Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh delve deeper into the questions of feminist, antiracist, intersectional archive practice. What are the characteristics of a critical feminist archive, understood as a social practice? How to create alliances that open spaces of solidarity for community building? What role is played by race, class and gender? How important are safe spaces? And to what extent can digital media technologies democratize the apparatuses of knowledge production?