Co_Labs function as “laboratories” for collaborative artistic-research practices. With each iteration featuring two researching artists and one grassroots archive, institution, or initiative, Co-Labs are spaces of generative exchange between us and the invited collaborators.
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Personal Archives
An Archive, a Body, and Album, and a Story, Galerija Klub Kocka, Dom mladih, Split (HR). Credits: Guilherme Maggessi.
“Personal archives” is a term that we use in references to not-yet-existing but possible archives, ones that get constituted through the gesture of imagining objects and ephemera, material or immaterial, as an “archival” object. Adopting such gestures requires certain operationalization, a methodology that captures such archives-in-becoming. This thematic cluster zooms in on the processes that we designed and engaged in for this purpose.
Queer/Embodied Archives
Still from documentation of QWIEN's move to their new location at Ramperstorffergasse 39 – 1050 Vienna (AT). Here, a detail of one of Wolfgang Reder's framed large format collages. Credits: Guilherme Maggessi.
“Queer embodied archives” names a thematic cluster built around the process of analyzing, digitizing, and presenting Wolfgang Reder’s holdings, stored in Vienna’s QWIEN. Employing conventional historiographic methods within archival studies (oral history, field trips), we submitted their results to collaborative remixing, resulting in a sequence of outcomes.
Resistant Archives
Documentation of the publication launch event for "an overhead shot of gloved hands opening an acid-free box," University Library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. © Natália Zajačiková.
“Resistant archives” are not necessarily archives of resistance, though they may as well be. In this thematic cluster, we focus on the material and practices that are involved in the production of the intersection between archives that document acts of resistance and archives that act as resistant entities.