Annotations on Memory (2025)
This exhibition engages with the intricate relationship between memory and annotation, inviting us to reflect on how we mark, interpret, and map the geographies of collective and intimate remembrance. Through participatory engagements, artworks, interactive websites, and curated archives, this collection delves into the construction and transmission of personal and cultural histories. The works propose annotation as an active process for engaging with the past, present, and future. They activate family heirlooms, fleeting processes, rituals, curated audiences, and language as catalysts for connection and dialogue.
Witness how these intentional acts of inscription transform the ephemeral material of memory into something tangible, something shared, something profoundly our own.
This year our students guide you to:
- Focus on a process-oriented view of a historic Haudenosaunee overdress
- Experience an interactive, sound installation echoing stories of queer Haitian experience~
- View a digital scrapbook of gratitude for maternal lineage
- Immerse yourself in an installation on Black Collective Memory
- Listen for memory and embodied knowledge in a movement workshop
- Learn about censorship through the stories of fan fiction writers
- Explore a multimedia art exhibit introducing a decolonial theory of memory
- Consider where oral history lives beyond the archives
- Explore the life and work of Black Women DJs
- Listen to the stories of the ex-Soviet diaspora in Brighton Beach.
- Immerse yourself in excerpts of stories of one community that fought against police brutality
- Explore an interactive exhibit about painting, memory, and iterative meaning-making
- Listen to a story beneath the surface— where exile, silence, and memory converge.
- Immerse yourself in a reflection about family, immigration and memory
- Take a close look at intimate oil paintings and witness the care shared within queer South Asian chosen family.
All Exhibits
Zozobra Brings His Glooms East by Bernadette Bisbing
Black DJ Renaissance: An Oral History of Black Women DJs; DJing as Storytelling and Art Practice by Asha S. Burtin
Echo Songs by Jace Chen
Yaad Se/From Memory by Purva Panday Cullman
Can You Get the FÀN by Cleo Cui
Listening for Traces: Learning You, Unlayering Me by Yuri Fujita
Chosen family portraits: An exercise in looking, seeing, witnessing, and being by Ananya Garg
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Keeping Our Dress Alive by Carter King
Spectrogram by Sage Foster
(an)other by Sarah Maacha, Avantika Seth, Ekta Shaikh
Swallowed Whole: Where the Land Holds Memory by Emma McAvoy
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Migration and Memory in Cuban Ballet Pedagogy by Samantha Sacks
‘Heirlooming’: Rethinking Memory and Relationality through Embodiment and Collapsed Time by Hilary Seeley
Scrapbooking: Memories In My Mother's Garden by Tejan Green WaszakThis page has paths:
- OHMA Interactive Oral History Exhibits Carlin Liu Zia
