When facing erasure ...

When facing erasure…
We fear, freeze, hide, and ignore.
We rest, remember, learn and unlearn.
We adapt, care, heal.
We gather, connect, listen, document, and forget .
We imagine, strategize, preserve, build and rebuild.
We create, protect, teach.
We resist, refuse, fight, shout, and transform.
We endure, return, and persist.
When Facing Erasure… is a multidisciplinary program curated by artist, filmmaker, and sound designer Victoire Karera Kampire. It explores our intuitive and often fragile responses to processes of erasure – forms of systematic violence that seek to suppress, disappear, or rewrite lives, histories, and presences.
Rather than offering conclusions, the program opens a space for listening, attention, and proximity. Bringing together sound works, audiovisual pieces, performances, as well as talks and readings, the program features contributions by Jennifer Izere, Mahlet Cuff, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, among others.
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image © Mahlet Cuff