Archives and Crimes

Archives and CrimesA text by Iman Mersal inaugurates the Howdunnit series part crime literature, part archival research exploring how different modes of investigation intersect and diverge. To enter a collective archive is to bear an anonymous corpse on your shoulders. The aim is not so much to uncover how this body met its end, but rather to feel compelled to fill the gaps that have rendered it nameless. Whether or not you intend to tell its story or share it with

conceptual art

which locates the beginning of all things in a primal explosion from which the stars

we realise we’ve been watching a film within the film

The Material Kinship Reader tells toxic and tender stories of interdependence among all things sentient and insentient

participants are asked to take off a garment

That’s all it takes to describe James Benning’s film from 2004

with Immanuel contributing as the designer who listened

Belgium (12

Holocaust revisionism

art and poetry by: Hasib Hourani

First translated into English as The Sky Falls by Marguerite Waldman in 1962

Palestinian architect