Reimagining the Archive

with Teow Lim Goh

Saturday November 9th 1PM—4PM Pacific over Zoom
(A recording will be made available to all registrants for a limited period afterwards.)

What does it mean to reimagine the archive? Archives are repositories of memory—letters, photographs, sentimental objects, oral histories, official documents, newspaper articles, and much more. How do archives reflect what we, individually and as a culture, choose to remember? How can we speculate on what is missing or silenced in archives? What is truth in the absence of evidence?

In this workshop, we will explore radical methods of working with personal and historical archives. Drawing on my own archival practices and writings by contemporary authors, we will discuss strategies to build our own archives. Truth is stranger than stereotype—we will also interrogate the workings of memory and develop creative work from the fragments we assemble.

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Pricing:

The following payment model is inspired by and borrowed from the payment model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class, We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks.

This workshop offers a sliding scale based on your relative financial standing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your financial wealth (retirement/savings/investments); your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and the world; are you expecting an inheritance); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$250 Partner

$175 Supporter (Note: This amount reflects the “real” value of this course.)

$100 Companion

$50 Friend

Scholarships are also still available for anyone needing further financial assistance. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info, or if you are feeling challenged in any way by the financial requirements of participation.

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Teow Lim Goh is the author of two poetry collections, Islanders (2016) and Faraway Places (2021). Her essay collection Western Journeys (2022) was a finalist for the 2023 Colorado Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction. Her work has been featured in The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, High Country News, and The New Yorker.