Mediating the Colonial Archive: Lecture and Screening of Unsettling Genealogies. 4th March @4-6 pm, FSM Auditorium, Kane Building B10B

26 Feb 2025

When does the (colonial) past become the past? And how do we interpret its legacies in postcolonial societies? What is the role of colonial archives in keeping the memory of the past alive?

Alessandra Ferrini, Leonora Masini, Chiara Giuliani, and Laura Rascaroli will open a conversation on these issues and welcome comments and questions from students and colleagues. The screening of Unsettling Genalogies  (Alessandra Ferrini, 2024) will provide further conversation topics on colonial archives, multimedia storytelling, and family stories.

Alessandra Ferrini is a London-based artist, researcher, educator. She is the recipient of the Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2022, of the 2017 London Film Festival’s Experimenta Pitch Award and the 2018 Mead Residency at the British School at Rome. She was invited to the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Adriano Pedrosa (2024). Her work features in Dreams Have No Titles, Zineb Sedira’s publication for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and Everything Passes Except the Past - Decolonizing Ethnographic Museums, Film Archives and Public Space (ed. Jana Haeckel, Sternberg Press, 2021). Her writing appears on the Harun Farocki Institute platform, Journal of Visual Culture and in The Entangled Legacies of Empire (ed. Max Haiven et all, Manchester University Press, 2022). She is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of the Arts London and Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. (https://www.alessandraferrini.info/info)

Organised by the Department of Italian and the Department of Film and Screen Media, UCC