Gestures in rewriting history exceed the systematic erasure of prior regimes of thought. Recent controversies surrounding the preservation and signification of highly visible monuments -- monuments variously seen as national, international, and local treasures -- reanimate long-held debates on history and its geographically-bounded nature.
Sites of Convulsion is a short exploration that looks at our lived realities under varying political regimes. They permit the analysis of the state and its dissidents, its regimes and the edges of its control, and the ways in which the state imagines itself vis a vis the citizen and vice versa.