An Archive, a Body, an Album, and a Story
Throughout September, a group of artists and researchers will occupy the space of Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, every week in a slightly different configuration, in the context of Rafał Morusiewicz and Guilherme Maggessi’s three-year research project W/r/i/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research (PEEK | AR716).
An Archive, a Body, an Album, and a Story, the title of this month-long encounter, points to the focus of each week: a Cruising Archive, a Fantasy Body, a Ghost Album, and a Glitch Story. Pointing to this year’s focus on personal archives, each week is informed by the participant’s respective practices and will bring attention to a different set of topical issues, research strategies, and artistic practices through group readings, exercises, and discussions.
In order to facilitate a dialogue between the group working in the space, the public, and colleagues based in Vienna working with methods and topics close to our own, we will convene public sessions every Wednesday, featuring contributions by members of our research group, sharing sessions by invited guests, as well as screenings and listening sessions of works that inform our project.
By the end of the month, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse will become an archive of its own, gleaning the remainders of these exchanges and encounters. We aim to display this archive throughout the first week of October by shifting the space’s logic from a project/working space into an exhibition.
We will keep you updated about our public events and the exhibition’s run through our website (wrighting-archives.com), our instagram profile (@kuntsverein) and the academy’s channels. Stay tuned.
Project participants: Tonči Kranjčević Batalić, Vlad Beronja, Josip Knežević, Guilherme Maggessi, Mika Maruyama, Rafał Morusiewicz, Ivana Šerič, Selina Shirin Stritzel, Petar Vranjković, and David Wilhelm.