This public sharing is an informal event that brings together ideas, works in progress and selected material from the residency 15, Carrying Histories.

Dr. Dalida María Benfield, (CAD+SR Research and Programs Director) and Christopher A Bratton (CAD+SR Executive Director) consider how can learning be addressed in the context of resurgent nationalisms, forced migration, and ubiquitous but uneven digitalization?

For this talk Liisa-Rávná Finbog will start by exploring some of the ways in which such healing may be achieved, presenting the potential of learning duodji, customary Sámi handicraft, as a means to not only facilitate the return of traditional knowledge (árbediehtu) and epistemology, but also strenghtens connections to heritage, to ancestors, to kin (fuolkit), to community and to individual identities.

Curator Noor Bhangu considers baithak, traditional and contemporary South Asian ways of gathering, to formulate her own approach to relational and activist forms of curation.

Join Oslo-based artist Sayed Sattar Hasan in the informal social atmosphere of The Dubliner pub as he tells the story of ‘My Granddad’s Car’.

@criticaldías speak about the control of reproduction and discuss recent projects investigating crossovers between the regulation of technologies of assisted reproduction, and the ‘reproduction’ of dominant culture.

CALLING ALL DIVAS is a reading and screening event organized by PRAKSIS resident Tyler Matthew Oyer.

Artist Syowia Kyambi introduces her research into the legacies of Germany’s colonial presence in East Africa.

Abdullah Qureshi explores the significance of autobiography, sexuality and trauma in relation to his artistic practice and ongoing doctoral project.

Participants in Residency 15 Carrying Histories give present their practices before opening up for questions and discussion.