Undisciplining II: Subversive (Re)Collections: Inventing, Inverting and Inheriting Visual Archives
Undisciplining II plenary session with George Kalivis, Arbër Qerka-Gashi, Jo Krishnakumar, Maria Georgouli Loupi and Vanessa Giorgo.
Archives have long been a subject of inquiry in the arts and social sciences – as technologies of power that invite resistance, as methodological tools that enable reinventions, and as sites of affective knowledge where sensory encounters can occur. Whether they re-narrate the past to make the present or store contemporality to imagine the future, archives are inventive spacetime machines with countless potentials.
This session brought together a visual historian, an anthropologist, a social researcher and a curator to share stories and critical reflections from three diverse impactful visual archives that subvert norms of gender, sexuality and national belonging. How can social media reframings of family archives enable the de-nationalisation of Balkan identities? What does the collection and illustration of South Asian queer closets problematise in taken- for-granted understandings of queerness? Who have historical feminist archives in London been made for and what does it mean to inherit them, seeking intersectional inclusivity and communal solidarity today?
Thinking with such archival practices may make us reconsider how we carry out and share research beyond disciplinary standards, aiming to imaginatively re-visualise and actively re-make more liveable sociopolitical worlds.
George Kalivis is curator of the Sociological Review Foundation’s Image-Maker in Residence series and a PhD candidate in visual sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dr Jo Krishnakumar is LSE Fellow in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Arbër Qerka-Gashi is founder of the digital educational platform Balkanism and a writer, researcher, visual storyteller, public speaker and events producer.
Maria Georgouli Loupi and Vanessa Giorgo are members of The Feminist Library's non-hierarchical collective, which is comprised of paid staff, volunteers and trustees who are committed to making decisions by consensus.
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This video recording was made on the third day of the conference, 12 September 2024, at The Lowry, Salford, Greater Manchester.
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