Open Archief – Artistic Reuse of Archives

Open Archief – Artistic Reuse of Archives'Open Archief Artistic Reuse of Archives' holds 12 essays, created by artists, curators, and researchers. The book follows three editions of the programme Open Archief (2019 2022), a multifaceted collaborative project that explores the potentials of what can be inspired by making archive materials accessible to artists for creative reuse. With contributions by Philipp Gufler, belit sa, susan pui san lok, Paula Kommoss, Gill Baldwin, Jessica de Abreu,

we dig hard into the gaps over the layers of patches of reality to find what’s left that could make us happy for a beat

They show objects once buried in the ground

artists and writers

The poems were later edited and compiled for this little book

film editors

as well as politically defining our society

Ubiscribe is a book on on-line and off-line publishing

moving from aesthetic visions of dim interiors and bodies in camouflage to open horizons full of light

Gu Zheng explores the early development of espionage surveillance technology through image files left behind by the East German secret police during the Cold War

She abandons one job after another to make time for the archive

This allows readers to re-create each design independently

and posited that our cities are uniquely positioned to either empower or constrict this discourse—and that the difference could lie in architecture and urban design