Your Guide to Diriyah Biennale's 'Timekeepers: The Archive in Flux'

Across four days, 'Timekeepers: The Archive in Flux' at the Diriyah Biennale Foundation opens up a conversation around the ways memory is shaped, preserved and transformed.

Through a series of talks and panels, the program explores archives as living spaces where personal, collective and digital histories converge—bringing together artists, cultural practitioners and anyone interested in the preservation of memory.

The program opens with 'Working Through Fragments,' focusing on the archive as incomplete and in flux, and how artists use fragments, myth, and found materials to reconstruct memory. Other sessions expand into counter-mapping and oral histories, questioning who defines official records and how overlooked voices and lived geographies enter the archive.

Later sessions shift toward the digital, exploring how data, virtual worlds, and cloud technologies are reshaping memory and control over it. Across the program, discussions return to the politics of remembrance—asking whose histories are preserved, whose are erased, and what a more inclusive archive could look like.