Moving Images Within Precarious Structures – Episode 3: Precarious Memory

Curated by Sarah Smith with Kelly Rappleye, the third episode of Moving Images Within Precarious Structures explores artistic approaches to the archive as engaging with precarious memory through moving image practice. How does artists’ moving image address archival gaps, exclusions, erasures and absences to evoke and create space for diasporic, exilic, migratory and displaced memory? This screening event features work by Kamal Aljafari, Morgan Quaintance, Suneil Sanzgiri, and Maryam Tafakory.

Episode 3: Precarious Memory considers the role of moving image in mediating and producing cultural memory, exploring how artistic methods of sampling, imitation, fragmentation and aurality can activate the archive as a site of negotiation between the individual and the collective, the intimate and the political, history and memory, representation and exclusion.

The screening programme reflects on how artists engage the precarity of memory itself across political contexts of displacement, exile, and repression, and between generations and geographies, using film as a tool to gather fragments of social and individual remembrance, redress misrepresentations, gaps and exclusions, and construct personal archives of living histories.