Archive Acts (Studio XX, 2016)

As part of Common Aliens: Diaspora in Time curatorial Taklif : تکلیف co-presents Archive Acts, a publication in collaboration with Atelier Céladon. This project aims at imagining the common ground between the temporal territories shared by the dispersed diasporas of people of colour, alienated under the immediacy of the present. The displaced subject always meditates through the logic of settlement, while being temporally distanced in the immediate order of time. The interior of their dwelling-in-displacement is furnished with dwelling-in-dischronotopicality. Unsettled between the local and extralocal, they are subject to the vagaries of time and history. The collation of diasporic memory is anachronous; time-lapsed and rendered between their here and there. This publication features work and ideas that put personal and collective archiving at the heart of the creative process, through which they responded to the concepts of historical/ temporal distance and instantaneity in relation to (their) diasporic imaginaries. Amir Salar Ashrafi | Hera Chan | Golnaz Esmaili | Nima Esmailpour | Shirin Fahimi | Võ Thiên Việt | Zinnia Naqvi | Aliaskar Torkaliaskari