SITIO EN ESPAÑOL
Bristol Zine
On 25 May 2023, we organised a workshop for postgraduate and early career researchers in Bristol: “Creative Visual Methodologies: Affective Interventions in Archival Materials”. The idea was to experiment with the affordances of creative and caring methodologies when exploring archival materials that both reveal and conceal forms of affective labour. Participants in the workshop were confronted with a series of photographs featuring wet nurses and infants that were taken in Lima in the nineteenth century. The product of their interventions into these photographs is this zine:
If you would like to print a copy of the zine yourself, please download the pdf in English and Spanish here.
For more information about the Bristol workshop and the photographs that participants intervened in, please see this blog post or read the editorial at the start of the zine, which is available in Spanish and in English.
Cambridge Zine
“Archives are not not merely repositories of historical artifacts; they are windows into the lives of those who came before us. […] In the silent corridors of archives, photographs often serve as frozen moments, capturing not only the physical presence of individuals but also the unspoken emotions, relationships, and societal nuances of their time.” (Introductory words by Ana Lucía Mosquera Rosado, Afro-Peruvian academic and activist)
This zine was created at the workshop “Affective interventions in archival materials: recuperating photographs of wet-nurses in the Courret Archive”, which was held at the University of Cambridge on 30 November 2023. It features a series of reappropriations and critical reworkings, via collage techniques, of a set of photographs from the Courret Archive at the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (BNP).
The workshop and this fanzine were made possible thanks to the funding and administrative support from the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), through its funding program for events and initiatives. Our research project “Affective and Immaterial Labour in Latin(x) American Culture” was funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Development and Engagement Fellowship (AH/V015834/1). Micaela Meneses Haustein assembled this zine and designed its front cover.
If you would like to print a copy of the zine yourself, please download the pdf in English and Spanish here.
For more information about the Cambridge workshop and the photographs that participants intervened in, please see this blog post or read the editorial at the start of the zine, which is available in Spanish and in English.