19/11/2020
We return to Poetics and Politics of Erasure in 2020, 3 years after its original release, offering our platform to be communally erased, as the multidisciplinary essay’ s attention to erasures, mutations and re-contextualizations, offers a version of the future we long to participate in.
While thinking along with the katamari, author Yun Lee [.feels ]demonstrates how through resurrecting, infinitely multiplying, diverging, reconstructing and reimagining the palimpsests/ghosts of our archives, inboxes, codecs, it becomes possible to ease the grip of history. To disrupt the authority of an original, to redraw maps, reclaim narratives, to reconfigure relationships and identities, to learn a new language to reclaim lost ones, to build and extend toward worlds beyond what we know to be possible.
Tomorrow, for launch event of the publication’s second release , Lee will discuss the research that eventually became the Poetics and Politics of Erasure publication.
Photos from original release of Poetics and Politics of Erasure, December 2017
📸:George Knegtel