Table of Contents
Thematic Clusters
Introduction
This collaborative artistic-research project, dedicated to working in/with archives, recognizes imperial and colonial violence underlying conventional archival practices and reflects on the possibility of transforming this violence into something generative. It extends critical attention towards the relationship between conducting artistic research dedicated to archives and performing the work of archiving in artistic ways, both of which derive from queer studies, decolonial studies, applied human rights, and critical archival studies. It proposes a process-oriented approach that involves collaboratively practicing and theorizing on artistic-research methods with the aim of building a sustainable Vienna-based network of artists and institutions working with archives. A key element for the above is technology, employed as a tool that enhances the project’s accessibility, as a format of artistic research, and as an alternative modality of collaboration.
Research Notes
Cruising spaces, with queerANarchive’s Tonči Kranjčević Batalić
published on June 4, 2025
Wolfgang Reder, według Alicji Reder
published on January 2, 2026
Safous, with Soñ Gweha
published on January 24, 2026
Wolfgang Reder, according to Piotr Glados
published on January 6, 2026
Gossip in the archive, with Ari Ban
published on June 4, 2025
Co_Labs
Core Team
Seth Weiner
Often containing performance and proposal simultaneously, Seth Weiner’s work employs a wide range of media in which he explores the gaps between architectural fiction and social convention to create both actual and imagined spatial environments. Weiner has worked process-based and collaboratively with Untitled Collective (co-founded in Los Angeles, 2010-2012), Gruppe Uno Wien, and from 2012-2018 served as the Co-Artistic Director of Berlin-based Care Of Editions, a conceptual business model in the form of a record label. Since 2018, Weiner has been the Artistic Director of Palais des Beaux Arts Wien, a nonprofit museum-like entity that serves as a mobile place of remembrance and projection for what was lost during National Socialism. During his time as director, Weiner has focused on commissioning artworks that deal with the history of Atelier Bachwitz, a publishing house that was once located at the Palais des Beaux Arts building in Vienna before it was Aryanized. Being Jewish, Weiner’s work on the Palais functions as an ongoing act of reclamation and a way to explore what that identity means in contemporary Austria.