Explore how power and privilege shape our institutional histories—and more crucially, what those histories leave out—in this talk with California-based visual artist Stephanie Syjuco, Associate Professor in Art Practice at UC Berkeley, co-presented by Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University

Stephanie Syjuco, Detail: "Dodge and Burn (Visible Storage)," 2019. Part of the solo exhibition "Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States" at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Sept. 6 - Dec. 29, 2019.

Institutional repositories, archives, and museums are tasked with housing cultural collections, framing narratives, and creating research opportunities for future generations. What happens when the holes, blank spots, mislabeled categories, and margins of an archive reveal more about who isn't included in a national story?

Syjuco will share recent projects drawing on research from online databases, internet searches, civic libraries, and museum archives. At stake is an understanding of how archives (and images) function to reinforce and reinscribe existing power structures, creating barriers for placing oneself into the line of history.