OHMA EXHIBITS: a collection of interactive oral history encounters

‘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?”

NOTE: This in person exhibit opens April 29, 2025 at 7.30PM ET.

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  1. 10-15 minutes Carlin Liu Zia
  2. Art, music, creativity Carlin Liu Zia
  3. Family archives Carlin Liu Zia
  4. Home, traditions, belonging Carlin Liu Zia
  5. Indigenous ways of knowing Carlin Liu Zia
  6. Identity Carlin Liu Zia
  7. Intergenerational conversation Carlin Liu Zia
  8. Land/place/space as memory capsule Carlin Liu Zia
  9. LGBTQIA+, Queer, Gendery Carlin Liu Zia
  10. Longing Carlin Liu Zia
  11. Questions as answers Carlin Liu Zia
  12. Speculative Carlin Liu Zia
  13. Care, healing, wellbeing Carlin Liu Zia
  14. The experience of being in a body Carlin Liu Zia
  15. Collectives & communality Carlin Liu Zia
  16. Trauma & testimony Carlin Liu Zia

Contents of this tag:

  1. Microphones and Brushes—An Exercise in Radical Empathy (2022)
  2. I Heard it Before I Ever Saw it: Tattooing and the US Prison System (2022)
  3. Procession (2022)

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