Vol. 10 (2024): Vol. 10 (2024): post(s) 10
Praxis

Archivo, Salsa y Resistencia: Irruptive memory to activate community archives

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  • Marcos Echeverría Ortiz
Marcos Echeverría Ortiz
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/post(s).v10i1.3119

Published 2024-12-02

Keywords

  • salsa,
  • community archives,
  • social cartography,
  • oral history,
  • transmedia

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Echeverría Ortiz, M. (2024). Archivo, Salsa y Resistencia: Irruptive memory to activate community archives. Post(s), 10(1). https://doi.org/10.18272/post(s).v10i1.3119

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Abstract

Where We Were Safe is an interactive documentary, map, and oral history archive that highlights the historic, though often forgotten, landmarks of salsa in New York City. Through cultural memory, this project seeks to reclaim the heritage of these sites and reconstruct the historical spaces lost due to gentrification and the displacement of African American and Latinx communities. The project includes an interactive exhibition, community screenings, a book, and a series of workshops on oral mapping, all of which explore collective transmedia methodologies. In this essay, through the discussion of concepts and practices such as oral history, social cartography, and “liberatory memory work,” collaborative archival methodolo- gies are proposed to facilitate access to and activation of community archives.

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