20–23°C / 50% RH
In this performative activation of 350.000 Leaks (Griefs), Aram Lee and artist Merapi Obermayer invite participants into an intergenerational gathering of reading, storytelling, oral histories, and call-and-response.
Moving across generations, national borders, bodies, and languages, 20–23°C / 50% RH questions the hegemonic logic of the universal institutional climate established through conservation in European ethnocolonial museums. Rather than approaching preservation as permanence, the gathering begins from an understanding of care as a practice of transmission, translation, and transformation. Through personal memories, oral histories, excerpts from the work, and related texts, the group explores how memories, losses, and climates pass between and through bodies. Together, Lee, Obermayer, and the session participants seek other climates that emerge through ongoing acts of translation and cannot be reduced to fixed measurements.
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Aram Lee (she/her) is an artist, writer, and educator. Grounded in feminist materialist thinking, her practice examines how histories of power, militarization, occupation, and toxicity are embedded within landscapes, bodies, and ecological matter. Working across moving image, installation, and research-based projects, she draws on oral histories, scientific inquiry, and site-specific investigation to reveal marginalized narratives, material memory, and alternative ways of sensing place.
Merapi Obermayer (she/her) is an artist, poet, and writer born in 1947. Obermeyer calls her work “Fragments in passing,” which bring together various disciplines based on her own colonial history and the issues it raises. The city became her natural habitat—there she meets people who, just like her, have become detached from their original landscape; people who are, day after day, creating their own landscapes, which cannot be taken away by others and which can be carried forever. You can bury your roots, your childhood, but never forever. There is no need to show them to the world. They come out of their own accord. Right now, Obermayer’s attention is focused on photography, projects that are never finished, and writing.
Image: 350,000 Leaks (Griefs) (2024) by Aram Lee, documentation of the live radio broadcast at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam.
