As a global collective of artists, activists and scholars, the Transformative Memory International Network explores memory as a transformative force attentive to the complexities of power and justice regimes, and to the tensions, exclusions and silences that enter the historical record and institutionally curated representations of political violence. We embrace methodologies of relational, embodied and emplaced knowledge exchanges and foster spaces of creativity such as artistic, affective and experimental approaches to knowledge generation. Reflecting on the memory labours of and knowledge exchanges between members, we interrogate how these works activate transformative possibilities. As a force, memory is a living and persistent insistence of life where life is denied. As a forcefield, memory is a way of persevering, regathering and refashioning a sense of self, relationships to others and political action, anticipating other ways of being together.