Preserving and re-framing identity and belonging: surfacing encoded memory in inherited media archives and objects

This paper explores encoded memory within inherited objects of the twice migrant Indian diaspora through the development of Threads a practice-led visual case study. Underpinning this case study is the re-presentation of personal diasporic narrative that questions and reformulates the past, to lay the foundations for re-evaluating identity and belonging in the present. Driven by a need to coax memories from loss and posit an alternative interpretation to Indian diasporic histories and memories which cannot be expressed in Eurocentric terms, Threads explores and seeks to discover what Paul Gilroy (1988) described as the ‘memory stored in safekeeping until a means of translation can be found.’ As such, the process of development considers media archaeology, application of creative technologies, inherited media archives and transnational objects (textiles).

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