Course Catalogue Summer Semester 2026
Fortresses with open doors
Type:
Basic seminar
Semester:
SoSe24
Target group
Basic Studies, Main course / Diploma 2
Requirement
No need to register beforehand.
Seminar given in English.
Discussions could be held in German, if necessary.
Open to Hautpstudium / Diploma 2 students.
Dates - place & time
| Typ | Start | End | Day | Turnus | from-to | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.04.24 | 26.06.24 | Mittwoch | 2-wöchentlich | 14:00 - 17:00 | Filzengraben 2, Atelier Netze, H. 4.02 |
| Typ | |
| Start | 10.04.24 |
| End | 26.06.24 |
| Day | Mittwoch |
| Turnus | 2-wöchentlich |
| from-to | 14:00 - 17:00 |
| Location | Filzengraben 2, Atelier Netze, H. 4.02 |
Seminar description
To enter an archive is to enter a fortress. You might have been invited in or even gotten a key, but the openness is only selective and temporary.
We think of archiving an inward movement: finding things, bringing them together, sorting them, and guarding them in a safe and stable place. The model of this type of archiving is the fortress. This model already provides a clear sense of the limits of the archive: fire, flooding, and data loss.
Can we think of the archive differently?
How can we manage the contradictions between conservation and accessibility?
There is another way of archiving: to use things, bring them into circulation, and distribute them (in all senses of the word). A process that operates based on projecting films, sharing spread-sheets, scanning books, printing objects, uploading mixtapes.
In the seminar, we will read, discuss, do, write, watch, listen and create a publication together. The outcome will be a publication.