Veronika Babayan (The Womb, C-Section, 1994) is interested in pedagogies and practices that affect the perpetual production of a national identity. Using and animating traditional women’s practices, she emphasizes the role of feminism in undermining hegemonic authority in patriotic memory. Babayan looks for ways in which antagonistic histories such as the Armenian-Turkish can interact with each other transnationally by borrowing existing cultural elements, signs and symbols to create new spaces for interterritorial belonging. Sour Counterfeits is a mobile forgery lab, where fruit leather documents are produced. Using the maternal Armenian tradition of fruit leather making as a mnemonic device for cultural preservation, Sour Counterfeits pulls from a larger collective memory, serving as a vessel through which deracinated testimonials of trans-generational trauma circulate beyond territory, language and citizenship.