Stories Rising to the Surface: Engagement with the Apna Heritage and Punjabi Workers Archives

浮出水面的故事：与阿普纳遗产和旁遮普工人档案馆的接触

• 批准号: 2627853
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2627853
• 关键词: Stories; Rising; Surface; Engagement; Apna

Archives can serve as intellectual and emotional puzzles for all those involved. When it comes to creating a photographic community archive, there is the labour of scanning, labelling, interpreting, and exhibiting. It takes collaborative effort to identify the people within the photographs and keepers of those objects inherited. The Apna Heritage and Punjabi Workers photographic archive has expanded its presence by not only uncovering vernacular family photo albums, but making connections with local libraries, colleges, art galleries, and places of faith. The archive, expansive and thorough, has been exhibited in the community and disseminated images to community members and local cultural sectors. The living archive is rich with entry points and questions on how to piece together the stories within and beyond the photograph. This proposal seeks to enter the archive from various perspectives. An initial reading of the photographs and objects will allow for organic connections through description and interpretation, focusing on materiality and meaning. Afterwards, the project seeks to connect with community members, engage with local archives, and build the historical context that surrounds this series of photographs from the 1960s-1980sand beyond. Through connection with contemporary community members, an effort will be made to depict the complexity of diasporic space through community engagement with the archive. Intergenerational storytelling will allow the community to share their understanding of their positionality within a diasporic space. Their questions will lead to investigations of home, interrogating home as ''the social and psychic geography of space that is experienced in terms of a neighbourhood or a home town. That is a community' imagined' in most part through daily encounters. This 'home' is a place which we remain intimate even in moments of intense alienation from it. It is a sense of 'feeling at home' (Brah1996).

档案可以为所有相关人员提供智力和情感上的难题。当涉及到创建一个摄影社区档案，有扫描，标签，解释和展览的劳动。需要协同努力来识别照片中的人和继承这些物品的保管者。Apna遗产和旁遮普工人摄影档案馆不仅通过发现本地家庭相册，而且还与当地图书馆，大学，艺术画廊和信仰场所建立联系，扩大了其存在。该档案广泛而全面，已在社区展出，并向社区成员和当地文化部门传播图像。活的档案是丰富的切入点和如何拼凑照片内外的故事的问题。该提案试图从各种角度进入档案。对照片和物体的初步阅读将通过描述和解释实现有机联系，重点关注物质性和意义。之后，该项目寻求与社区成员建立联系，与当地档案馆合作，并建立围绕这一系列照片的历史背景，这些照片来自20世纪60年代至80年代。通过与当代社区成员的联系，将努力通过社区参与档案来描绘散居空间的复杂性。代际间的故事讲述将使社区能够分享他们对散居空间内的位置性的理解。他们的问题将导致对家的调查，质疑家作为“社会和心理的空间地理学，是在邻里或家乡方面所经历的。这是一个社区“想象”在很大程度上通过日常遭遇。这个“家”是一个即使在我们与之极度疏远的时刻也能保持亲密的地方，它是一种“宾至如归”的感觉（Brah 1996）。