We are delighted to share recordings of the keynote speakers from A&H’s 2022 symposium The Art of Remembering – Research, Action and Healing. The one-day event, jointly organised by Arts&Heritage with Newcastle University’s Institute for Creative Arts Practice, took place on 14 November 2022. The symposium set out to explore how museums and heritage sites, artists, curators, academics and communities have responded to both commemorated and suppressed historic events, and the ways in which they forge new social, cultural and artistic alliances, connecting past conflicts with today’s movements for human rights. 

Each video can be accessed using the passwords presented within the Resource Hub.

Speakers were:

• Linda Norris, Senior Specialist in Methodology and Practice at International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
• Jean-François Manicom, Senior Curator, Docklands History and Legacies, Museum of London (at the time of the Symposium: Lead Curator of Transatlantic Slavery & Legacies at the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool)
• Dr Gonul Bozoglu, Lecturer in Museum and Gallery Studies, Newcastle University
• Enam Gbewonyo, Textile and Performance Artist; in conversation with Marie-Anne McQuay, A&H Director of Projects.

With thanks to StageText for their help in subtitling the recordings.

Linda Norris, Senior Specialist in Methodology and Practice at International Coalition of Sites of Conscience gave the pivotal Keynote Lecture: From Memory to Action: Art and Healing at Sites of Conscience.

Founded in 1999, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) is the only worldwide network of Sites of Conscience with over 350 members in more than 65 countries, all united by their common commitment to use the lessons of the past to find innovative solutions to related social justice issues today.

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Jean-François Manicom, Senior Curator, Docklands History and Legacies at the Museum of London discussed a key archival residency by artist Khaleb Brooks at the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, from when he was lead curator of Transatlantic Slavery & Legacies, as well as his own complex cultural inheritance from his family roots in Guadeloupe. 

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Dr Gonul Bozoglu, Lecturer in Museum and Gallery Studies, Newcastle University presented a paper and sharing of her documentary films on the Heritages of the Greek Communities of Istanbul. Her research engages with marginalised communities whose heritages have been suppressed. She is interested in this problem at a global scale while working in particular with the Greek Communities of Istanbul. This involves working with minority Greek-Istanbuli groups in Istanbul and Athens to develop online ‘memory maps’ and a documentary film. The project aims to save community memories at risk, giving voice, and increasing awareness and visibility of hidden or silenced memories that are rarely recognised in official heritage.

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In conversation between artist Enam Gbewonyo and A&H Director of Projects Marie-Anne McQuay. Together they discussed Gbewonyo’s practice and her site-specific responses to the history and architecture of God’s House Tower, aspace, Southampton as part of A&H’s Meeting Point programme and the Guildhall, London – A&H’s 10th anniversary commission in partnership with the Guildhall. This included the screening of two films made in 2022.

Enam Gbewonyo is a British Ghanaian textile and performance artist whose practice investigates identity, womanhood, and humanity while advocating the healing benefits of craft. She uses performance as a vessel, creating live spaces of healing that deliver the collective consciousness to a positive place of awareness. Her work has been exhibited at Mostyn Gallery (Wales), the Women’s Art Collection (Cambridge University), FRAC MECA Aquitaine (France) and Galerie delle Prigone for the Fondazione Imago Mundi (Italy) to name a few. 

To watch the recording on vimeo, please use the password: EnaM_GbewonyO

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