Geospatial data points crisscrossing emotional and relational content; micro histories that elevate the domestic to the public domain; archiving as healing; memory as resistance; collecting + amplifying texts, sounds, feelings; unexpected bursts of the ephemeral solidifying in permanent records; memory as resistance: archives as blunt tools for soft caresses.
In our How much can we take of it? project we look at microhistories of the intimate and the domestic, as seen through everyday devices (such as photography, souvenirs, sounds, objects, etc.), as potential entries for archive making.
In past projects of ours (Sprouting Stories, Beirut, 2024; Transient Flows, Taiwan, 2019; Ways of solitude, Manila, 2018; and Ghost walker, Mexico City, 2016) we have experimented with different techniques and aesthetic approaches to propose and build experimental archives that resonate from the intimate to the collective.
Project phase: Currently we are ready to develop a methodological template of the project -as a body of different works-, that could be released and replicated by arts practicioners or institutions. We are specially interested in developing, during our residency, a sort of pedagogical roadmap towards a synthesis of the different techniques we have been aplying in past projects.
Past projects: Transient flows (publication)
Ghost Walker (publication)
Ways of Solitude (publication)