Create Your Own Family Archive

In this workshop, you will reflect on the role of migration and labor in your family history. How has this influenced you and your family: what is your story? The workshop will be led by visual artist belit sağ.

In this workshop, participants are invited to reflect on the intersection of migration and labor and make connections to their own family histories. What memories emerge? How have these themes shaped their lives and the lives of their families and ancestors? Participants are encouraged to bring (originals or digital copies of) objects and/or photographs from or related to their family archives that reflect their family's experiences with labor and migration. During the workshop, we will share and narrate these stories, honoring the uniqueness of each one.

belit sağ (she/they) is a visual artist, researcher and educator. She studied mathematics in Ankara; audiovisual arts and comparative literature in Amsterdam. They were an artist inresidence at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2014/2015, Amsterdam) and International Studio and Curatorial Program (2016, 2019, NYC). Her research-based artistic practice centerson the visual representations of political violence and archival respresentations of migrationhistories. Their current project An-sisters is an archival research project on labor struggle of a group of migrant women from Turkey who were the first migrant women unionized in the Netherlands. She has presented works at NYC, Toronto and Rotterdam International Film Festivals, documenta14, MOCA Taipei, Flaherty NYC, and Eye Filmmuseum, among others. LIMA distributes their moving image works. She tutors at Sandberg Institute, Rietveld Academy and Royal Academy of Art Den Haag (KABK). belit is currently a fellow at ReCNTR Multimodal Research Center at the Leiden University.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Centrale Bibliotheek, Spui 68, Den Haag, Netherlands