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Memory Atlas 2021

 

Memory Atlas
Residency
Creative Fusion, Cleveland Art Foundation.
Art House
Cleveland, USA
2021

 

 

The Memory Atlas workshops are an invitation for the participants to activate their personal and collective histories, their identities, and places of origin through visual dialogues using collage, drawing, and montage. The purpose is to develop a personal cartography, the remembrance of places and histories as they dwell on their personal memory.
 

One workshop took place at the Natividad Pagan International Newcomers Academy. This school receives immigrant students from all over the world for a period of two years, so that they can learn English, acclimate, and then continue with their education at other schools. I delivered the workshop to students in fifth, sixth and seventh grades as part of their summer curriculum. All of them are immigrants from Congo, Sudan, Chad, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Honduras, Puerto Rico and El Salvador.
 

The second workshop was delivered to members of the theatre group called Gumdiptheatre in Akron, Ohio. Gumdiptheatre is a nonprofit organization whose director is Katie Beck. The group works in a beautiful space located in Akron, Ohio. Some of the members of this theatre group are immigrants in the United States. Katie allowed me to work with them for this project, and thanks to her I was able to collaborate with five amazing persons: Neema Bal from Burma, Samantha Byake from Congo, Razya Tazamir from Afghanistan, and Hsa Win from MyanMar.

 

Memory Atlas, 2021
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