The Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center is delighted to host Jeffrey Yoo Warren, a Korean diasporic artist/educator, illustrator, and public historian for a talk titled "Relational Reconstructions: Personal Reconnection, Creativity, and Immersive Counter-Archival Practices.” The event is co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
5:00pm - 6:15pm
Macksey Seminar Room (M2043), Brody Learning Commons
Experiences with archives—their gaps and
harms—can be both painful and fruitful for people of color. Drawing
inspiration from Saidiya Hartman’s critical fabulation, Linda Sue Park’s
craft-based reconnection narratives, and Adolfo
Albán Achinte's re-existencia, Yoo Warren and collaborators craft
multisensory immersions to develop relationships with possible
ancestors, using archival records as building materials. This approach,
called “relational reconstruction,” involves working generatively
around archival gaps to weave ancestral spaces into our lives through a
variety of digital and print techniques.
