Unstranded Archive

未搁浅的档案馆

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Unstranded Archive imagines an interminable archive whose inclusive history and decolonial praxes are reached through communal engagements and mutual pedagogy rather than institutional mediations. In this sense, we imagine a de-memorialized archive of the present that is always incomplete and always in progress. The Archive imagines a decolonial praxis that unfolds in three tangents –– the episteme, the quotidian, and the artistic (specifically on lens-based works). In the first sector, through mutual contribution from administrators and users alike, we archive significant texts, exhibitions, and protests that have contributed to the field of decolonial study historically. In the second sector, we imagine a mutual pedagogy of quotidian strategies to navigate the rupturing present, where individual stories serve as central mediators of solidarity in a postcolonial world. In the last sector, we imagine the emancipatory potentials through the lens and aesthetic practices in the process of decolonial praxes. We periodically collaborate with artists who engage with lens-based works to reawaken muted histories. To inaugurate a more compact history in response to their works, we archive extended research and additional studies conducted by artists beyond the confines of the image object. Standing at the intersection of these three facets, we imagine an option or a method that moves towards heterogeneous nodes of decolonial praxis –– a communal stratosphere that delinks from institutional filters and unfolds as a space for shared knowledge and nurtured artistic practices.

Contributors:
Designer: Tangent Collective
FrontEnd: Soolx
BackEnd: Chen Sun

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