Issue 69 | The Unstable Archive: Imagining History, Nation, and Future

题引人 Writer / Moderator | 王凯帆 Kaifan Wang

对话嘉宾 Guest Speakers | 张明归  Minh Quý Trương + Haema Sivanesan

Online Panel Talk Time｜May 24th 10:30--13:00 @ZOOM Conference 

嘉宾座谈时间｜5月24日 北京时间22:30 -- 5月25日1:00 Zoom 视频会议

Program Overview | 专题概览 

Are those lie in the past absolutely irrefutable and unchangeable? Or those in the future, undetermined and therefore useless? When reflecting upon the history, we tend to seek guidance from the seemingly rational historical data or other distinguishable traces. Written records and visual documentations are often undoubted in their ability to represent historicity and the truth. Coupled with cultural hegemony, certain dominant interpretations of the past have fed us with a historiographic mindset of linear progression and relative static colonial imagery. The guest speakers of this issue have been trying to intervene in such conceptualization of history through their respective art practices. One draws reference from ancient legends while the other envisions a…