6 december 2002 – 15 februari 2003
What is, actually, a living archive? If one understands archive in the classic sense as something static and bound to a place, does ‘living’ archive imply a potential expansion in terms of space and content?
For Katrin von Maltzahn and Heidi Specker, the project initiators, ‘archive’ does not represent just an accumulation of documents or a digital database. Rather, the exhibition carried the title Archive, as the acts of collecting and sorting are common to both artists in their artistic methods. They regard their systems of order as ‘living’, because connections exist between the different aspects of their respective work, and also to the works of other artists, in this case Guillaume Paris and Michael Schmidt, and writers Elke Naters and Sven Lager. Accompanying the exhibition was an evening of discussion with Elke Naters and Sven Lager who presented their literature project “ampool.de”, and a film program in co-operation with the Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek in Cinema Arsenal.
Collective work with the participating artists: Katrin von Maltzahn, Guillaume Paris, Michael Schmidt and Heidi Specker.