The Garden of Memory. Archive and Sovereignty Sessions

This conference explores archiving and memory as community political practices linked to activism, care and the search for technological sovereignty in the face of technocapitalism. We ask how, where and with what tools we build our memories, from data centres to libraries, questioning hegemonic notions of time, progress and visibility. In response to a context that promotes the abstraction and erasure of humanity, nature and interdependent ecosystems, we propose anti-fascist, decolonial and collective practices to imagine and build other desirable futures.

Here, the practices of archive and memory are understood as a living practice, fugitive and in dispute with hegemonic narratives, capable of sustaining other temporalities, opacities and decreases.

Led by Barby and Ezequiel Soriano from the Communication Guild, Xeito Fole and Rodrigo Yrigoyen Gonzales from the Digital Guild, Mercedes Saya Rosés, Lourdes Gay-Punzano and David Coñomán from the Publishing Guild and Kha Villanueva, Nadia, and Samu from the Santa Mònica Participation Guild.