Pamila Matharu in Conversation with Janine Marchessault

DESCRIPTION
Toronto-based artist Pamila Matharu was invited to intervene in the Archival Intimacies project. Active since the early 1990s in Toronto, she has been a key organizer for South Asian and BIPOC cultural communities, including serving on the 1995 Desh Pardesh committee. This collection includes materials from Matharu’s personal archive from this period, illustrating the networks of South Asian queer organizing in other contexts in North America. As part of her residency, Matharu will produce the first episode of Diving into the Wreck, a multi-part podcast series examining historically marginalized feminist cultural production with a focus on queer and trans South Asians in the North American diaspora. The first episode focuses on the legendary Desh Pardesh Conference/Festival (1988 – 2001), an event-based gathering that took place in Toronto and was key to developing counter-hegemonic and non-status-quo cultural jamming in the diasporas. In this conversation between Matharu and Janine Marchessault, Matharu shares her thinking behind this project and the need for intergenerational memory building and archive making.

AUDIO
Duration: 00:08:47

ADDITIONAL METADATA
Subject(s): Pamila Matharu
Type: Audio

PROVENANCE
Collection: Satrang at 25 Exhibit Materials
Item History: 2023-05-16 (created); 2023-06-14 (modified)

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