Working With and Against the Archive
<p>In this essay series, we address Saidiya Hartman’s call for working <em>with and against the Archive</em> by gathering the voices of (artistic) researchers who are concerned with strategies that do not seek to reproduce archival material and the power negotiations inextricably linked with it. Instead, they are engaged in the field of community-based archival work, exploring the phenomenon of absences within archives and related questions about data bias and their visualizations, investigating gaps in the archive through the lens of critical fabulation, and visualizing Switzerland’s colonial entanglements through artistic and experimental research practices.</p> <p>All of them have the following questions in common: How might a feminist ethic of care/radical empathy in archives and archival practices be introduced? How might researchers reconcile the right to opacity and the right to be forgotten? How can the ongoing violence in the presence and/or absence of certain archival materials be addressed? What strategies can be provided for the archival infrastructure to speak or even «reveal» itself? What are the limits of archives, and what is the value of strategies that transgress or rebel against these limits? How can issues of consent and its withdrawal engaged with meaningfully? How can individuals whose data is represented be involved with an ethic of care?…</p>
Issue Editor: Lucie Kolb, Lara Kothe
Contributors: Michelle Caswell, Jovita dos Santos Pinto, Daniela Rosner, Jihan Sherman, Lauren F. Klein, Romi Ron Morrison
Series Editor: Lucie Kolb, Lara Kothe, Pablo Müller, Barbara Preisig, Judith Welter
Designer: Sabo Day
Programmer: FLX Labs
Part of: Brand-New-Life Magazine
ISSN: 2297-9220