Organised by Ana Rocío Jouli, project Rewriting the Archive – Transdisciplinary Activations in Latin American Literature, Research Area 2: "Travelling Matters", and Camilo Baquero Burgos (Trashumantes).

How to make poetry out of documents? How to write with and against archives?

In Handbook for Dismantling Memory, eleven voices from the Latin American diaspora in Berlin rewrite materials like election records, migration forms, and advertisements. By reframing the verbal and visual matters of these documents, their poetics explore the archive as a political territory of resistance, belonging, and imagination.

Handbook for Dismantling Memory (English translation by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg) was created within the Activation Lab, a space for collective research and experimentation on Latin American documentary poetry. The Lab is a transdisciplinary format developed as part of Ana Rocío Jouli's postdoctoral project, "Rewriting the Archive – Transdisciplinary Activations in Latin American Literature". This edition was conceived and realised in collaboration with Trashumantes, a migratory and participatory publishing project that produces books through collective processes, with the support of Haus für Poesie, Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda and Barrio | Bairro Berlin.