ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF EAST AND SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMUNITIES IN LIVERPOOL AS MODEL AND SOURCE

ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF EAST AND SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMUNITIES IN LIVERPOOL AS MODEL AND SOURCE

Talk by Emily Beswick

Q&A session moderated by Clare Chun-yu Liu

This Open Session centres on Emily Beswick’s research in which she engages with family photograph archives of East and Southeast Asian communities in Liverpool, UK, to reveal submerged narratives and memories. This talk explores visual archives of diasporic individuals and communities as a model and source for hybrid diasporic identities, diasporic feelings and diasporic practices of photography. A PhD researcher at the University of Liverpool and Tate Liverpool, Emily Beswick will discuss her method of participatory workshops, where participants use creative methods – including mapping, tracing and weaving – to materialise new interpretations of photographs from newspaper, documentary and family photograph archives.

Intrinsic to Emily’s research is the concept of ‘diasporic vision,’ drawing on Grace Cho (2008), Donna Haraway (1988), and Stuart Hall…