When facing erasure ...

When facing erasure… We fear, freeze, hide, and ignore. We rest, remember, learn and unlearn. We adapt, care, heal. We gather, connect, listen, document, and forget . We imagine, strategize, preserve, build and rebuild. We create, protect, teach. We resist, refuse, fight, shout, and transform. We endure, return, and persist. When Facing Erasure… is a multidisciplinary program curated by artist, filmmaker, and sound designer Victoire Karera Kampire. It explores our intuitive and often fragile responses to processes of erasure – forms of systematic violence that seek to suppress, disappear, or rewrite lives, histories, and presences. Rather than offering conclusions, the program opens a space for listening, attention, and proximity. Bringing together sound works, audiovisual pieces, performances, as well as talks and readings, the program features contributions by Jennifer Izere, Mahlet Cuff, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, among others. — image © Mahlet Cuff