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2025 Hilary Seeley
12025-04-07T13:11:40+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a0841plain2025-04-07T13:11:40+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Hilary Seeley (she/her) is an oral historian, artist, maker, and scholar living on Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). After spearheading an oral history project for 17 years with elders and material culture, she joined Columbia University’s OHMA program. Her recent work integrates her prior studies with various Indigenous conceptions of memory, knowledge, and time; placiality; Black, Chicana, and queer feminist theory; and disability studies. She earned a BA from UC Berkeley in Interdisciplinary Studies and is a fellow at Incite Institute.
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1media/Promo_Seeley_Heirlooming_square.pngmedia/Promo_Seeley_Heirlooming - Hilary Seeley.jpgmedia/Promo_Seeley_Heirlooming_square.png2025-04-07T13:14:12+00:00‘Heirlooming’: Rethinking Memory and Relationality through Embodiment and Collapsed Time (2025)13A multimedia art exhibit introducing a decolonial theory of memory and method for its exploration and understandingplain2025-04-21T17:31:16+00:00Hilary Seeley
By Hilary Seeley
How is the standard life-history approach to oral histories limited? What of the encounter is lost? What is created? In this exhibit, oral historian and artist Hilary Seeley introduces a decolonial theory of memory and method for its discovery and understanding. Calling us to tend to various modes of communication, the senses, and affect, she asks, “How can we deepen the ways in which we come to know and understand? What is at risk if we fail to do so?”
NOTE: This in person exhibit opens April 29, 2025 at 7.30PM ET.
