Through the Dark

Installation

W/ri/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research

24.05.2025

“W/ri/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research” is a process-based artistic-research project dedicated to working in and with archives. Its core operational strategy converges two motivations: to conceptualize archives as relational entities, and to recognize the epistemological shift towards practicing research as art.
These motivations are framed on the basis of two intersecting agendas, informed by Eve Tuck and C. Ree’s "A Glossary of Haunting,” where the intention of "righting the wrongs,” i.e. a call for ethics and justice in archive-based research, is accompanied by "writing the wrongs," which investigates possible modes of representation and narration for archival research. The project extends its critical attention towards the relationship between conducting artistic research around archives and performing the work of archiving in artistic ways, informed by theoretical reflection from queer studies, decolonial studies, applied human rights, and critical archival studies.

Co-led by Rafał Morusiewicz and Guilherme Maggessi, the project involves collaborations with institutions such as queerANarchive (Split, HR), QWIEN, and Volkskundemuseum Wien (both in Vienna, AT), as well as with artists, researchers, and cultural producers, including: Tonči Kranjčević Batalić (queerANarchive, Split, HR), Herbert Justnik (Volkskundemuseum Wien), Mika Maruyama, Selina Shirin Stritzel, Seth Weiner, and Isabelle Edi.
 
Volkskundemuseum Wien
Otto Wagner Areal, Pavillon 1
Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien

Öffnungszeiten:
Di-Fr: 10-17 Uhr
Sa: 14-17 Uhr
So: 11-17 Uhr
Anfahrt

Postanschrift:
Laudongasse 15-19, 1080 Wien

T: +43 1 406 89 05
F: +43 1 406 89 05.88
E: office@volkskundemuseum.at

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