Reading Workshops

Upcoming: Spring 2019

Location: Visual Arts Facility 366, University of California, San Diego

Registration recommended: interrogating.the.archive@gmail.com

Indigeneity and Pia Arke’s “Ethno-Aesthetics”

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 1:30pm

Jonah Gray, PhD Student, Visual Arts with Prof. Shaista Patel, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego


Arke, Pia. “Ethno-Aesthetics.” Rethinking Nordic Colonialism – Act 5: Denmark, Finland, Norway & Sweden, November 25, 2006.

Jonsson, Stefan. “On Pia Arke.” Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 44 (September 1, 2017): 12–21.

Juhl, Carsten. “Being and Origin – A Presentation of Pia Arke’s Exhuming Gesture.” Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 44 (September 1, 2017): 22–31.


Affect and the Archive: On Charting Queer Networks in Axis Mundo

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 12:00pm

Shoghig Halajian, PhD Student, Visual Arts with Prof. Alena J. Williams, Visual Arts, UC San Diego


David Evans Frantz, “Chicano Chic: Fashion/ Costume/ Play”, in eds. David Evans Frantz and C. Ondine Chavoya, Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., New York: Prestel, 2018: 56-75.

Cifor, Marika, “Affecting Relations: Introducing Affect Theory to Archival Discourse.” Archival Science Volume 16, Issue 1 (March 2016): 7–31.


Digital Knowledge and Collective Memory

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 12:00pm

Erika Barbosa, PhD Student, Visual Arts with K. Wayne Yang, UC San Diego


Choi, Jong-Chul. “Reinventing the Archive in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Walid Raad’s The Atlas Group.” Digital Creativity 29, issue 2-3 (2018) 235-248.

Gilbert, Alan. “Walid Raad’s Spectral Archive, Part I: Historiography as Process.” e-flux Journal #69 (January 2016),

Gilbert, Alan. “Walid Raad’s Spectral Archive, Part II: Testimony of Ghosts.” e-flux Journal #71 (March 2016).


Ontology and Haunting: On Agard-Jones’s “What the Sands Remember”

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 12:00pm

Katherine Steelman, PhD Student, Ethnic Studies, with Prof. Roshanak Kheshti, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego


Agard-Jones, Vanessa. “What the Sands Remember.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Volume 18, Number 2-3 (June 2012): 325-346.

Current Workshop

Interrogating the Archive_Reading Workshop_The Atlas Group_May 15_12pm.pdf

Past Workshops

Interrogating the Archive_Reading Workshop_Affect and the Archive_ Wed, May 1_12pm.pdf
cic spring workshop1_ethnoaesthetics__.pdf
InterrogatingArchive_ReadingWkshp_Flyer.pdf

Image: Walid Raad (The Atlas Group), Missing Lebanese Wars (Notebook Volume 72, p. 140), Fakhouri File, 1996-2002