‘Sifting Through’ Archive Workshops call out
We invite you to join us for a three-part-workshop series about precarious housing histories in January, February and March 2025. Register your interest today.
This project is the first part of research into a speculative exhibition exploring shared homes with strangers as a means of survival in our current economic climate. A particular focus is the consequent phenomena of blended/contested cultures within houseshares and questions around what it means to have ‘a room to your name’’.
A series of three free workshops at Museum of the Home will be taking place in January, February and March 2025. Each session will involve collective research and knowledge exchange around the archives, followed by a shared dinner amongst all of our participants.
After the three sessions, the project will conclude with a final group sharing (of knowledge/of experience/of findings) and the creation of a communally designed newspaper, which will act as a resource for the exhibition. The shape(s) of this will be decided upon by participants.
Workshop Breakdown
Workshop 1
Date: Sunday 26 January 2025
Time: 11am - 3.30pm
Sitting With the Archives: A collective dive into archives around precarious housing histories, community heritage publications and inter-borough photojournalism in the Collections Library at Museum of the Home.
Workshop 2
Date: Saturday 22 February 2025
Time: 11am - 3.30pm
Standing Around the Archives: A focus on ‘accidental archives’ outside of institutions and in/ around our neighbourhoods. This session will involve a short walking activity, focusing on the senses as a source of embedded archive.
Workshop 3
Date: Saturday 15 March 2025
Time: 11am - 3.30pm
Writing Through the Archives (using the speculative): A focus on word play and entering a dialogue with the archives, whilst drawing from Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin and Saidiya Hartman and their use of speculation as a tool. The text ‘The Black Speculative Arts Movement’ will also be explored in this session.
Register your interest
Please register your interest in attending all the workshops below. Applications will be reviewed based on the questions in the form. Submit your answers and a member of our team will be in touch by the dates below. Spaces are limited. Please ensure you are available for all workshops in-person (at Museum of the Home) when applying.
- Deadline to apply is Thursday 9 January
- You will be notified about selection by Monday 13 January 2025
Application Form
About the Curator
Makella Ama
Makella Ama (b. Accra, Ghana) is an anti-disciplinary maker with a practice that often takes shape through curation, visual anthropology and writing through a sensorial lens. Their practice is rooted in a background of community/youth work with children in care and young refugees. A question Makella is often grappling with is this: how can we demystify the link between storytelling, history and the ability to bring archives to life/light/memory?
Date
Extended: Thursday 9 January 2025
Time
By 11.59pm
Cost
Free
Location
Museum of the Home - 136 Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA