The InterAccess Time-knot: Should We Let Media Die?

Join InterAccess's former resident archivist, Kit Haehnel, as she shares discoveries from her time with the InterAccess Archive and argues for the ephemerality of media. With the InterAccess Archive spanning many forms of mixed media (from Telidon, to floppy, to VHS), it contains histories that are buried, lost, and sometimes difficult to uncover. Drawing inspiration from Chakrabarty’s concept of the ‘time-knot’, Eyel Weisman’s Forensic Architecture (2017), Derrida’s Archive Fever (1996), and the work of other queer and disabled scholars, Kit Haehnel will take you through fragments of InterAccess’s over forty year history and the lives its community members might have lived.

Following the artist talk, participants are invited to take part in the Remix Zine Studio, where participants will collage physical and digital zines from archival material. Come and cut, copy, and paste to your hearts' delight!

Schedule

• 2 – 3:30PM: Artist Talk (RSVP required) 
• 3:30 – 6PM: Remix Zine Studio (no RSVP required)
  

About the speaker 

Kit Haehnel (she/they) is an archivist, researcher, and all around data sleuth with a penchant for nontraditional methodologies and research practices currently based in Toronto, ON. Their research work focuses on trans* and disabled ephemera, stories, and visions for the future. Having worked with communities and research institutions in New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto they specialize in digital media, old specialty ‘junk’, and archives of the body.

This event has been rescheduled from the original date (March 15) and location (950 Dupont St).