Ways of Remembering Ourselves - Donna Kukama
The history book for those who absolutely need to be remembered (2015 and ongoing).
"Since 2015, I have embarked on a series of site-specific performative interventions that constitute a history book for those who absolutely need to be remembered. Through this work, I use performance as an expanded form of archiving or writing histories, with a particular focus on the stories of the marginalized or forgotten."âDonna Kukama
In order to write the history of each site, conversations, archival material, artefacts, and literary material are combined with personal memories and performed as a chapter of the book. By recomposing archival research as living, breathing bodies, writing-as-a-ritual transforms how the history of a place is constructed and, therefore, narrated. The linearity and objectivity with which history has âalwaysâ been presented is interrupted while the resulting story is both subjective and collective.
Collectively, these interventions are to be considered as time-based texts that specifically address history in their own form and on their own terms. Because the bookâs chapters are written through performance, their physical form is ephemeral. The political implications of writing in-time, and with-time allows a temporality, disturbs certainty, and presents a series of shared scenarios of endurance through time, with each chapter having the potential to produce new non-linear texts, objects, and sounds whose âspiritâ can potentially travel or remain on-site.
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The history book for those who absolutely need to be remembered (2015 and ongoing).
"Since 2015, I have embarked on a series of site-specific performative interventions that constitute a history book for those who absolutely need to be remembered. Through this work, I use performance as an expanded form of archiving or writing histories, with a particular focus on the stories of the marginalized or forgotten."âDonna Kukama
In order to write the history of each site, conversations, archival material, artefacts, and literary material are combined with personal memories and performed as a chapter of the book. By recomposing archival research as living, breathing bodies, writing-as-a-ritual transforms how the history of a place is constructed and, therefore, narrated. The linearity and objectivity with which history has âalwaysâ been presented is interrupted while the resulting story is both subjective and collective.
Collectively, these interventions are to be considered as time-based texts that specifically address history in their own form and on their own terms. Because the bookâs chapters are written through performance, their physical form is ephemeral. The political implications of writing in-time, and with-time allows a temporality, disturbs certainty, and presents a series of shared scenarios of endurance through time, with each chapter having the potential to produce new non-linear texts, objects, and sounds whose âspiritâ can potentially travel or remain on-site.
