a/p/a RADICAL ARCHIVES presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU curated by Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh Friday, April 11 – Saturday, April 12, 2014 radicalarchives.net Co-sponsored by Asia Art Archive, Hemispheric Institute, NYU History Department, NYU Moving Image Archive Program, and NYU Archives and Public History Program. Access the Internet with NYU WiFi SSID nyuguest login guest2 password erspasta RADICAL ARCHIVES is a two-day conference organized around the notion of archiving as a radical practice, including: archives of radical politics and practices; archives that are radical in form or function; moments or contexts in which archiving in itself becomes a radical act; and considerations of how archives can be active in the present, as well as documents of the past and scripts for the future. The conference is organized around four threads of radical archival practice: Archive and Affect, or the embodied archive; Archiving Around Absence, or reading for the shadows; Archives and Ethics, or stealing from and for archives; and Archive as Constellation, or archive as method, medium, and interface. Advisory Committee Diana Taylor John Kuo Wei Tchen Peter Wosh Performances curated Helaine Gawlica (Hemispheric Institute) with assistance from Marlène Ramírez-Cancio (Hemispheric Institute) RADICAL ARCHIVES SITE MAP Friday, April 11 – Saturday, April 12 KEY 1 NYU Cantor Film Center 36 E. 8th St Restaurants Coffee & Tea 2 Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU 8 Washington Mews Cafetasia Cafe Nadery Oren’s 3 NYU Bobst Library 70 Washington Square S Ramen Takumi Galanga Stumptown Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, 10fl Fales Library and Special Collections, 3fl Cosi Pizza Mercato Sullivan Street Tea 4 NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Brad’s Mamoun’s Falafel Studies enter at 255 Sullivan Street Richard Ettinghausen Library Campus Eatery Insomnia Cookie The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University a/p/a recognizes that as the world becomes connected at higher speeds on a certain level, international cultural connection, translation and a shared re-imagined space come increasingly into play. • A/P/A Institute aims to promote discourse on Asian/Pacific America defying traditional boundaries, spanning Asia, to the Americas, through the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds. • A/P/A Institute works to dispel socio-cultural and political misconceptions, provide cultural and scholarly connections, lead collections building, and encourage innovative research and interdisciplinary exploration. • A/P/A Institute’s goal is to serve as an international nexus of interactive exchange and access for scholars, cultural producers, and communities from New York to beyond. Co-sponsors Asia Art Archive Hemispheric Institute NYU History Department NYU Moving Image Archive Program NYU Archives and Public History Program Media Partner Special thanks to all of our presenters and keynote speakers and to: Mariam Ghani Mona Jimenez the NYU Cantor Film Center staff: Chitra Ganesh Xiaofei Mo Maureen Fitzgerald Diana Taylor Helaine Gawlica Shaan Changrani Peter Wosh Marlène Ramírez-Cancio Spiro Karantzalis Jane Debevoise Marcial Godoy-Anativia Schalaun Wilson Barbara Weinstein Stephanie Ching A/P/A Institute at NYU staff: Anna Takada Mansee Kong John Kuo Wei Tchen Jonathan Yuan Marisa Mazria Katz Laura Chen-Schultz Mark Putterman Laura Raicovich Alexandra Chang Alexandra Giffen Anna Mary Levy Amita Manghnani Manuel Molina Tara Sarath Ruby Gómez Hamad Altourah at-a-glance CONFERENCE SCHEDULE NYU Cantor Film Center 36 E. 8th St FRIDAY, APRIL 11 Theatre 101 Theatre 102 10:00AM Welcome – 10:15AM Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh Artists-in-Residence Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU 10:15AM Keynote: Archiving a Revolution – 11:00AM Lara Baladi 11:05AM Disrupting Standards, 11:05AM Her Body is an Archive: – – 1:00PM Remaking Interfaces 12:20PM Julie Tolentino’s “The Sky Hadassah Damien Zack Lischer-Katz Remains the Same” Jenna Freedman Martha Tenney Julie Tolentino Debra Levine Anne Gilliland Alexander Provan Tara Hart (moderator) Eric Goldhagen (moderator) 12:30PM Performance: – 1:00PM Invisible Archives of Portuguese Dictatorship and Revolution Joana Craveiro 1:00PM LUNCH 1:00PM LUNCH 1:50PM Collecting Resistance: – 3:35PM Archivists in/of Movements 1:50PM Inside the Black Boxes: – Julie Herrada Fredrik Egefur 3:45PM Archives and Erasures Sharon Farb T-Kay Sangwand Douglas Cox Alexander Manevitz Ali Jamshidi Zachary Loeb (moderator) Joshua Craze Voichita Nachescu Amy Roberts Melinda Hunt Hana Sleiman Ramzi Kassem Allen Feldman (moderator) 3:40PM Radical Sampling: Archives – 4:55PM Remixed and Remade 3:50PM The Prison and the Archive – Jennifer Burris Staton Park McArthur 5:05PM Francisco Diaz Casique Jaime Taylor G.D. Cohen Sukhdev Sandhu Carol Jacobsen Alexis Agathocleous Brian Harnetty (moderator) Samina Shahidi (moderator) 5:10PM Collaborative Preservation – 6:30PM Strategies: a Look into XFR STN Johanna Burton Alan W. Moore Andrea Callard Leeroy Kun Young Kang Coleen Fitzgibbon (moderator) Tara Hart Performances: Remembering as Archive: 6:45PM – (re)Defining ‘Archivist’ Fading Memories and the Joy of 8:00PM Joyce LeeAnn Forgetting Nicolás Dumit Estévez Recalls on Nocturns for the Last Time CONFERENCE SCHEDULE at-a-glance NYU Cantor Film Center SATURDAY, APRIL 12 36 E. 8th St Theatre 101 Theatre 102 10:00AM Keynote: The Queer Art of the Counter-Archive – 10:45AM Ann Cvetkovich 10:50AM The Queer Art of the 10:50AM Archiving Palestine: – – 11:50AM Counter-Archive 12:05PM Perspectives on Loss, Recovery, Harrison Apple Ryan Conrad Resistance, and Identity Andrew Campbell Carlos Motta (moderator) Grace Lile Maggie Schreiner Mezna Qato Rachel Mattson (moderator) 11:55AM – Diasporic/Decolonized 1:30PM Archives 12:10PM Queering Archives – Vivek Bald Maria Isabel Alfonso 1:30PM Kate Eichhorn David Serlin John Bradley Shannon Faulkhead Kwame Holmes Zeb Tortorici Rosie Kar Grace Sanders Johnson Daniel Marshall (moderator) Susan Lord Dean Saranillio (moderator) 1:30PM LUNCH 1:30PM LUNCH 2:15PM Welcome – 2:20PM John Kuo Wei Tchen Founding Director Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU 2:20PM Keynote: Ethics and the Archive – 3:05PM Shaina Anand 3:10PM Archives from Below 3:10PM Spectral Archives – – 4:40PM Molly Fair Anika Paris 4:25PM and Archival Specters: Bonnie Gordon Blithe Riley Archives of Violence, Jen Hoyer Ryan Lee Wong Terror and Fugitivity Tina Campt Deborah Thomas 4:45PM No Instructions for Assembly: Anne McClintock Allen Feldman (moderator) – 6:00PM Case Studies in Radical Archiving 4:30PM Performance: The Monsanto Shadow Joy Garnett Kameelah Janan Rasheed 5:00PM– Michelle Wong Steffani Jemison Symposium Jen Liu Ian Alden Russell (moderator) 6:05PM There is another history 5:05PM Lesbian Archives Roundtable – – 7:20PM Presentation and film program 6:20PM Ellen Gruber Garvey Margaret Galvan Lisa Merrill Rachel Corbman Curated by Laura Guy and Charlotte Procter Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz Flavia Rando Films by: Jo Spence Lisa Steele Leah Gilliam Ronna Bloom 6:25PM Wrap-up Panel Vivienne Dick – 7:55PM Shaina Anand Chitra Ganesh Lara Baladi Mariam Ghani Ann Cvetkovich Mona Jimenez John Kuo Wei Tchen at-a-glance CONFERENCE SCHEDULE PROJECTS, PERFORMANCES, & INSTALLATIONS FRIDAY, APRIL 11 11:00AM Office of Blame Accountability 5:00PM Open Archives Hour – – 6:00PM Geoff Cunningham & Carla Repice 6:30PM Visit participating NYU archives with Kiran Chandra and Maya Pindyck and libraries: A/P/A Institute at NYU Gallery Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Fales Library and Special Collections The Richard Ettinghausen Library at the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies (on view: Index of the Disappeared: Parastic Archive) SATURDAY, APRIL 12 11:00AM Archiving the Now 1:30PM Once More to Pfaff’s! – – 6:00PM Chloë Bass Dave Ruder 2:15PM A Walking Tour of a Lital Dotan Woody Leslie Esther Neff Living Archive A/P/A Institute at NYU Led by Karen Karbiener Gallery Space is limited – please register at the conference check-in table in advance. Tour includes a steep staircase and is not wheelchair accessible. FRIDAY, APRIL 11 & SATURDAY, APRIL 12 A Public Demonstration 10:00AM pilot press... – 10:00AM of XFR STN: 8:00PM Jen Kennedy Liz Linden – 6:00PM Common Capture: Keyhole NYU Cantor Film Center Evacuations in Media Archaeology Lobby A/P/A Institute at NYU Gallery Friday Radical Archives (SPAN) 4:00PM Listening Sessions: Hemispheric Institute – 7:00PM a peer-to-peer investigation 10:00AM Digital Archive Station Jules Rochielle Carol Stakenas – 6:00PM A/P/A Institute at NYU Saturday A/P/A Institute at NYU Gallery 3:00PM Seminar Room – 6:00PM Appointments available on the half hour. See page 27 for details. CONTENTS Welcome 1 Letter from the Curators Conference Schedule Keynotes 3 Friday, April 11 4 Saturday, April 12 14 Projects, Performances, & Installations 26 WELCOME Letter from the Curators RADICAL ARCHIVES is a two-day conference organized around the notion of archiving as a radical practice. An international contingent of archivists, artists, artist-archivists, activist archivists, theorists, and scholars working within a range of archives and archival practices will present and discuss archives of radical politics and practices; archives that are radical or experimental in form or function; how archiving in itself might be a radical act in certain moments or contexts; and how archives can be active in the present, as well as documents of the past or scripts for the future. Radical