Join our resident archivist, Kit Haehnel, as she shares discoveries from her time with the InterAccess Archive and argues for the ephemerality of media. With the InterAccess Archive spanning many forms of mixed media (from Telidon, to floppy, to VHS), it contains histories that are buried, lost, and sometimes difficult to uncover. Drawing inspiration from Chakrabarty’s concept of the ‘time-knot’, Eyel Weisman’s Forensic Architecture (2017), Derrida’s Archive Fever (1996), and the work of other queer and disabled scholars, Kit Haehnel will take you through fragments of InterAccess’s over forty year history and the lives its community members might have lived.

About the Speaker 

Kit Haehnel (she/they) is an archivist, researcher, and all around data sleuth with a penchant for nontraditional methodologies and research practices currently based in Toronto, ON. Their research work focuses on trans* and disabled ephemera, stories, and visions for the future. Having worked with communities and research institutions in New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto they specialize in digital media, old specialty ‘junk’, and archives of the body.