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Scan of my Sketchbook with my practical research on memory, trauma and family archives

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SURVIVORS OF THE FAMILY ARCHIVE

We were lucky enough to attend a talk about the work of Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari who regularly uses archives in her practice. She has recently exhibited her Photo Presents project in P21 Gallery in London as part of the Autonomy of Self exhibition.

In her own words;

“My practice is part of my multidisciplinary research, which focuses on personal archives, memory, postmemory and trauma. 
I am interested in photography and its use as a referent that bares witness to the traumatic events of the Armenian Genocide and Diaspora.” 

She used her family archives to look into the family members she has never met and presented their objects along side with their name, place and date of their birth and the year in which they died (Of Armenian origin ​who have never obtained any other nationality). She made an installation titled Survivors using photographs of her presumed relatives that she didn’t recognise: life-sized prints standing against a black corner of a constructed room to represent trauma. She states that the post-memory (the transferred memory of survivors of an atrocity between generations) acts as a intergenerational communication and the family archive can act as a network of images, memories and proof of experience.

The Survivors, 2013, Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari

She is interested in the materiality of the photographic medium and utilized the creases, the tears and marks on the photographs without masking these. She wanted to show how the family members that lived in a different generation and geography might have used those photographs. The namelessness of her family archive relates to the facelessness of those that were killed in the Armenian Genocide.

I am interested in using her work as part of my essay for The Personal Vision Programme to look at how an archive can be used in art work and how the concept of an archive can be used to analyse such work. 

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Autonomy of Self : Rejecting violence with the lens in former Ottoman territories, Blogpost by Joy Stacey for Chase.

Autonomy of Self was my first curated group exhibition, bringing together moving image and photography from across the former Ottoman territories to explore how individuals are using the human image to refuse violence and conflict. Consequences of the Empire’s collapse in 1922, and the impact of subsequent interventions from “Western” states still resonate in the identity and actions of countries in this territory today. Diverse cultures and conflicts are fundamentally connected through this shared history, from the Bosnian war to the invasion of Iraq and now the rise of Daesh (ISIS/IS/ISIL). With political representation in deficit for many, individuals are instead utilising the democracy of visual technologies, and presenting themselves to the lens to claim alternate representation in the face of violence.  read more here-->

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Photo Presents and the Autonomy of Self on THE ARAB WEEKLY

By Karen Dabrowska

Autonomy of Self: Remembering injustices Photographs can raise awareness about long-protracted conflicts and past issues that otherwise could fall into oblivion. 

Read the article here: http://www.thearabweekly.com/?id=2370

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Photography and the Art Research Centre (PARC) hosts a symposium at The Swedenborg Society Hall, chaired by Max Houghton.

http://www.photographyresearchcentre.co.uk/what-we-do/conferences/2015-autonomy-of-self Autonomy of Self : Rejecting violence with the lens in former Ottoman territories VENUE: Swedenborg Society Hall 20 Bloomsbury Way WC1A 2TH London United Kingdom DATE: Thursday, 15 October 2015 from 13:30 to 17:00  Autonomy of Self : Rejecting violence with the lens in former Ottoman territories The event will be hosted by PARC Research Group at The Swedenborg Society Hall, and chaired by Max Houghton. Speakers include: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Moufida Fedhila, Nadia Mounir, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari and Joy Stacey.

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.@UniArtsLondon interviews former @ahrcpress fellow @Armenoui who was placed at US @librarycongress @KlugeCtr: https://t.co/6yNl5VjHXD

— RCUK USA (@RCUKUSA) October 8, 2015

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Our wonderful PhD community: Meet Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari - News & Events

Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari is a PhD student at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, she is a third year student and has recently carried out research in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Here she tells us about her PhD experience so far… What is your PhD title? Has it changed much …

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INTERVIEW// UAL Research

Read about #ualphd student's @Armenoui fellowship @librarycongress funded by @ahrcpress http://t.co/PiN6IixzP2 #phdchat

— UAL Research (@ResearchUAL) October 7, 2015

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Autonomy of Self intelligently unites emerging film and photography from the Middle East and North Africa through the locus of the Ottoman Empire...

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P21 Gallery installation Shots

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Artists and lecturers Dora Carpenter-Latiri and Leslie Hakim-Dowek will sit in conversation with artist Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari, to explore their photography, their use of family albums, and their relationships with the conflicted home cities they have left behind.

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Wednesday, 16 September 2015, P21 Gallery, City of London. Autonomy of Self Talks Memories of Beirut and Tunis: Transformed Cities and the Family Album

Talks: Memories of Beirut and Tunis / Heart of Two Nations

Wednesday, 16 September 2015, P21 Gallery, City of London. Autonomy of Self Talks

Memories of Beirut and Tunis: Transformed Cities and the Family Album

Heart of Two Nations: Hrant Dink, presented by Nouritza Mattosian

Chaired by the artist Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari.

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Reading Suggestions:)

Suggested Reading @KlugeCtr 📚📙📓📖 Enjoy! #phdchat #memory #media #photography #Armenian pic.twitter.com/0tbY9lChjf

— Armenoui K.S. (@Armenoui) August 18, 2015

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Armenouhi Kasparian Saraidari - a life story worth reading

Armenia is in my name – Armenouhi. Even though I am far away from the historical homeland of my father’s family, I am Armenian and I feel Armenian. Our shared experiences, our memories of exile, my family’s stories… all these have emerged through my art. I am a visual artist, and my work inspired by my family’s past explores the concepts of trauma, remembering and forgetting.

My family story presented by 100lives.com!  Visit http://www.armenouiks.com/of-armenian-origin.html for the rest of the project.