The Anti-Archive as a spatial design tool for the continuous destruction and reconstruction of memory
The project establishes a design posture, a method for conveying content from memory spaces (museums, archives, libraries, etc.) that rejects the reproduction of historical discourses. Instead, it seeks to show the ruptures and gaps in history in which each individual can endlessly reconstruct his memory.
The installation is never shaped by a single voice. Meaning is continuously co-created through interaction: one can intervene in traces left by previous participants, while two people interacting simultaneously transform the content together. These shifting layers of input resist closure, enabling a collective and recursive rewriting of memory.
There are infinite anti-archives in every archive
M.A project made at the UDK Berlin, for the Vilém Flusser Archive
(2019)
