12 May 2026: Open Call for Submissions
Reimagining Archives: Memory as an Institutional Archive
Archives are often understood as institutions, structured, preserved, and formally recognized repositories of history. Yet before any institution, there is memory. There is the body. There is lived experience.
As we continue the urgent shift toward consciously building African narratives informed by Africans, we invite a reimagining of what an archive can be.
Countless personal archives—living records of memory, experience, and creativity—exist beyond formal institutions and live in photographs, journals, sketchbooks, oral histories, community spaces, landscapes, rituals, inherited objects, gestures, scars, and in the work we create in response to our surroundings. This open call invites you to consider memory not as something fragile or informal, but as an institutional archive in its own right—a site of authority, preservation, and knowledge production.
(submissions open 12 May 2026)
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