A tale of toxic archives
and its multilimbed bodies

SAVVY Contemporary invites the audience to engage with one of their practices – a practice of participatory archiving of colonial history. The workshop will be an attempt to ground the conversation in the local context and reflect on the situatedness of Poland within the discussion on colonialism. On one side Poland signify a space where colonial policies were implemented by Prussia and Nazi Germany, on the other, the consolidation of the Polish national state project at the beginning of the twentieth century included a desire and ambition to acquire overseas colonies and constitute itself as one of European imperial powers. The workshop will invite participants to reflect on multilayerdness of both sides of history by situating them within their individual experiences and lived complexities of these silent entanglements.