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On 11 December 2023, a group of artists and activists took another step in their ongoing protest at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. The group, called Te Waka Hourua, used power tools and spray paint to alter the text of an English display panel in the museum’s Te […]

Hasib Hourani and Jeanine Hourani in conversation across April – June 2024 HH: What is archive to you? What is something you’ve been doing lately that feels like a process of archiving? JH: I’ve been thinking a lot about the process of archiving recently actually. I’ve been thinking about it within a broader framework of […]

In my childhood home, we had a living room that we used only for when guests visited. It was the untouched section of the house and featured a Persian-style carpet, cream leather couches, a coffee table covered with a small crochet doily, a dining table with a plastic table protector and four mahogany wall units. […]

When reflecting on institutional archives, I found myself simultaneously hopeful and anticipatorily disappointed.  Growing up between Kerala and Kuwait during the Gulf Wars as a displaced third-culture child, I must have internalised a stock image of an animated cast of ‘working professionals’, individuals unrestrained by gender, ethnicities, mobility, ability and means, who balanced personal needs […]

September 2024 This issue takes its title from the sabaar, a cactus that once grew along the borders of now-flattened Palestinian villages. Almost impossible to eradicate, the sabaar continues to reappear and grow along those same lines, demarcating where those villages once stood.[1]  Nothing is less clear than the word ‘archive’.[2] In its most basic […]