Are archives spaces of affect? How can research be conceived that questions its own standards and instead embraces as a method everything that eludes the standards of documentation and classification? In an exchange with Agnieszka Roguski and Natalie Keppler (Artistic Directors Kunst Raum Mitte), the artists Isabel Lewis and Yon Natalie Mik discuss performance art in relation to archival processes. They explore the impossibility of archiving performance on the one hand, and the possibilities of dealing with it artistically on the other. The relationship between affects, feelings and subjective experiences and supposedly objective forms of historiography is addressed, as are the moments of protest that go hand in hand with them.

In English language.
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Are archives spaces of affect? How can research be conceived that questions its own standards and instead embraces as a method everything that eludes the standards of documentation and classification? In an exchange with Agnieszka Roguski and Natalie Keppler (Artistic Directors Kunst Raum Mitte), the artists Isabel Lewis and Yon Natalie Mik discuss performance art in relation to archival processes. They explore the impossibility of archiving performance on the one hand, and the possibilities of dealing with it artistically on the other. The relationship between affects, feelings and subjective experiences and supposedly objective forms of historiography is addressed, as are the moments of protest that go hand in hand with them.

In English language.
Free admission.