Arne Sjögren is a practice-based PhD Researcher at CREAM, School of Arts, University of Westminster and a founding member of Hyphen Collective. He works with multimedia to explore fictionalised interpretations of historical events derived from family interviews, archives and personal memories. Through the use of different technological modes afforded by a series of intermedial assemblages, Arne’s doctoral research explores the idea of different narrative voices that express the complex personal experiences of ‘colonial entailment’ (Stoler, 2008, 195-196). This polyvocal approach to this fictional narrative both allows, and invites, multiple imagined voices to speak.

Stoler, A. (2008). Imperial debris. Cultural Anthropology 23(2), pp. 191-219.

Watch each fictional story and view the set-up and making of the films

Download PhD thesis:
Diving: using fiction narrative and intermedial assemblage to understand family histories in colonial India between 1933-1947