The Unreliable Archives
The Unreliable Archives are offline material archives full of unreliable (collective) memories. This artistic practice in development currently takes the form of an installation-performance. In the archives you will encounter polyphonic sound stories based on interviews with family members and people from post- Apartheid South Africa in combination with insights from colonial histories, biology and geology. You will find cairns of stones, stories, maps and moss in geological layers in every corner of the space.
Rona Kennedy is researching how to invite an audience to encounter the material in the Archives viscerally, through the senses. The intention is to explore questions like: whose body remembers and how does forgetting function? Who is not listening and why? Could we do this by getting our hands dirty and having new (material) conversations? Reading (aloud) fragments of decomposing conversations? Examining and re-composing our own unreliable memories? How can we compost colonial histories, put down roots and find home?
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