Curators’ Walkthrough of The Nature of Remembering
Join co-curators Megan Hoetger and Lawil Karama for a walkthrough of the exhibition, which introduces the audience to key topics within each of the artists’ research trajectories, as well as to major themes connecting between them.
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Lawil Karama (she/her) is a Ugandan-Dutch conceptual artist born in former West Berlin and based in Amsterdam. Her work is deeply rooted in the diasporic experience, often drawing from her family history as a starting point for challenging conventional narratives and amplifying unheard voices. Karama’s creative path began in the world of special make-up effects, which continues to influence her approach, bringing a visceral understanding of form, surface, and psychological tension into her current work.
Megan Hoetger (she/her) is an on-the-ground hard femme, and she is also a performance, film, and media historian, a curator, convener, and pedagogical dreamer. At the core of her work is a double commitment: first, to a research praxis that rejects colonial and (neo)liberal strategies of knowledge production; and second, to the frames of thinking offered by the field of performance studies with regards to time, (im)material transmission, and embodied memory. Hoetger is particularly attentive to what these frames of thinking can teach her about historiographic method, the relationality of archival work / the relational work of ‘the archival,’ and the politics of remembering events – from macro-level actions in statecraft and international relations to micro-level happenings like a film screening, poetry reading, or performance.
