Launch: Archive Acts
Photograph by Marion Trikosko. Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration in Washington D.C., 1979.
Launch: Archive Acts co-presented with Taklif : تکلیف
AMIR SALAR ASHRAFI
HERA CHAN
NIMA ESMAILPOUR
SHIRIN FAHIMI
CORINNE LAJOIE
ZINNIA NAQVI
ALIASKAR TORKALIASKARI
Sun. Dec. 4
4 — 5:30pm
Taklif : تکلیف co-presents Archive Acts, a publication in collaboration with Atelier Céladon. This project aims at imagining the common ground between the temporal territories shared by the dispersed diasporas of people of colour, alienated under the immediacy of the present. The displaced subject always meditates through the logic of settlement, while being temporally distanced in the immediate order of time. The interior of their dwelling-in-displacement is furnished with dwelling-in-dischronotopicality. Unsettled between the local and extralocal, therefore, they are subject to the vagaries of time and history. The collation of diasporic memory is anachronous; time-lapsed and rendered between their here and there. This publication has featured works and ideas that put personal and collective archiving at the heart of their creative process, through which they responded to the concepts of historical/temporal distance and instantaneity in relation to (their) diasporic imaginaries.
Taklif : تکلیف is a non-affirmative artist-run initiative formed with the ambition to rigorously bridge the intellectual activities of the disquiets with their emotional embodied intuitions, within and without the institutional settings.
Taklif is homework; processes of (un)learning within an imaginary space, in which our attempts to escape finally cease through our fugitive practices of togetherness. Taklif is pain; the affective difference in our disoriented collective bodies. Taklif is responsibility; as we study institutional and organizational frameworks, rhetorics, and behaviours that perpetuate the subjugation of the Black, the Indigenous, and the People of Colour. Taklif is cost; the kind that escapes the world of market through vigilante modes of sharing and generosity, the cost that gifts are made of. Taklif is fate; where the entangled possibilities cross each other.
Taklif : تکلیف believes our principles are only valid once we acknowledge the status of Kanien'kehá:ka lands as occupied and colonized Indigenous territories on which we dwell, think, read, write and work.
Taklif : تکلیف co-présente la publication d’Archive Acts en collaboration avec Atelier Céladon. Le propos du projet est d’imaginer le terrain commun entre les territoires temporaires partagés par le diaspora des personnes de couleur, qui sont aliénées par l’immédiat du moment présent. Les sujets déplacés négocient toujours à travers le logique de la colonie, tout en étant distancés temporairement dans l’ordre immédiat du temps. L’intérieur de leur foyer en déplacement est meublé avec le foyer dischronotopical. Perturbés par le local et l’extra-local, ils sont sujets des caprices du temps et de l’histoire. La collation de la mémoire diasporique est anachronique; elle a été accélérée et réinterprétée entre ici et là. Cette publication comporte des oeuvres et des idées, qui consistent des archives personnelles et collectives en tant que le noyau de leur pratique créative, à travers lesquelles répondent les concepts de la distance historique/temporaire, ainsi que l’instantaniété par rapport à l’imaginaire diasporique.