Work Outside XPUB and Correlations

Momentary Lapse in Memory

Momentary Lapse in Memory is an interactive digital environment concerning the memory landscape of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. It investigates the impact of ephemeral factors on the archival practice. By doing so, it makes space for the unreliable mechanisms of both memory and its transmission, to steer and sway.

• Explanation of the project [1]
• Link to project [2] if it says it took too long to respond just refresh the page. Take note there is sound on the website!

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  Momentary Lapse in Memory at Amsterdam Museum

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  Process publications

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  Projection of Momentary Lapse in Memory

• I wrote a lyric essay for Amsterdam Museum Journal's edition War, Conflict and the City [3] under the title A Momentary Lapse in Memory: An Inquiry into (Re)Memory and Trauma Embodiment [4]

Abstract
This essay investigates the impact of the archival practice on oral histories of conflict. Specifically, it asks to what capacity can the lived experience be devoured by the grinding machine of forced institutional remembrance, and how can it defy such a predicament? The inquiry to this question was studied through the oral history of the author’s friends, family and neighbors concerning the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. This military intervention was done in response to the oppressive regime of Slobodan Milošević and remains fresh in the Serbian collective memory. Utilizing qualitative generative interviews, a case study of the author’s parents’ approaches to archiving, and personal footage recorded by the Radio-Television of Serbia, the paper examines differences between institutional and personal archival practices. The analysis displays that institutional remembrance can claim the lived experience through collective memory, which is reinstated by commemorative practices and archiving. In contrast, oral histories of conflict result in a different type of narrative-building and remembering. They are characterized by mechanisms such as collective editing, transmission, and nonlinearity, which resist standardization and instrumentalization. This paper advocates for reconsidering static preservation-oriented modes of institutional archiving, proposing instead, to embrace non-reproductible aspects or the unreliable of oral history.

• Related to: the Archive, Oral History

Nightly Manifesto

• Glitch Feminism Manifesto
  • Questions of existing and expressing oneself online
  • How glitches and errors can be a way of resisting

Here is what I wrote more about it on my page Notes, Thoughts and Annotations:

Read this manifesto for the radio show Nightly Manifesto I host with Julia Wilhelm. It really spoke to the experience I had growing up in predominantly queer spaces on Tumblr, and the liberty that offered compared to the real world. I like that Legacy proposes that we should use AFK (away from keyboard) instead of IRL (in real life) so as to not prioritize real life and say that the lives we live digitally are 'lesser than'. After all, so much happens online that has consequences on the lives we live afk and vice versa. Politically, socially, economically... to name a few. Legacy's idea of not being named, working from the point of invisibility as a strategy to enact change is also something that makes me quite excited. The idea of the glitch and error as being this disturbing forces that dismantle and confuse the system is also very seductive (although I did start thinking about the fact that even errors are named).

• Rewor(l)ding: an episode of improvised storytelling. Parameters for this improvisation were: drawing 2 genres which the story will be told + drawing a person, object or phenomena that will interject into the storyline of the object

Reading Rhythms Club

• Zine on reading methods Julia Wilhelm and I have created 2022 can be found here> [5]
  

We got funding for this project and are preparing a whole curriculum with collaborators situated in Rotterdam.

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Note to self: write more about this as it develops

Research Fellowship with NFF (Nederlands Film Festival)

With studio ARK (Atelier Roosje Klap) I have been granted a research fellowship to investigate the research question of: Exploring Collaborative Boundaries in Hybrid Knowledge Creation

• Related to: the Archive, collaborative practices and working with technology

Screentime Airtime Facetime

Editorial and dissemination work done on the INC research project Going Hybrid, which questions how cultural institutions can provide a quality hybrid program post-covid. The plan Miriam and Rasch and I made was an live event as a publication that has different 'chapters' in which the different teams converse about their research. This event would later be transcribed and turned into a web and print publication. The idea was to just use the tools that were already there, and make use of the rich research that was done. Tools like the Hmmm's livestream platform, Etherport (OSP's web to print tool), the interviewing approach the Living Archive's group used, as well as prioritizing the spoken over the written word. The result of it can be found here[6]