‘Heirlooming’: Rethinking Memory and Relationality through Embodiment and Collapsed Time (2025)
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?”