Sunday 6 December and Tuesday 8 December **PLEASE NOTE this is a two day workshop

7.15pm - 9.15pm,

Location: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Ln, London E1 7LS

Feeling backwards: a lecture and workshop

Nina Wakeford  

Event now free, booking essential

Using materials on the methods of oral history from a herstory archive, this lecture and workshop will explore what it means to feel as well as look backwards, as well as the question of what counts as evidence of the past. The event will be in two parts. In the first, there will be a performance-lecture and workshop using materials and methods from an existing archive in order to collate questions that resonate with the themes of Now You Can Go – namely the questions of genealogy, emotions, and collectivity. In the second part there will be an opportunity for participants to report back on answers to these questions that they have been able to generate in between these two sessions. 

This workshop would suit artists and researchers interested in interviewing and personal testimony. Previous experience with interview methods is not required, although participants should expect to generate some material in relation to the workshop theme between sessions. "Feeling Backwards" is derived from the title of Heather Love's book Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard University Press, 2009)

Image Caption: Nina Wakeford 484 14th Street Digital video 11 minutes 2014