Archive Effect

Our urban intervention and performance is conceived upon an archive of fictional creative initiatives. By designating empty spaces in the city as former residences of these creative initiatives, thereby generating an archive effect of ‘the lost’, our intervention investigates vacancy as an indication of economical, urban, cultural political and social imbalance and creates a meta-level of discussion. Not intended as a romantic enactment, this archive calls into question the coming of future rather than the mere documentation of the past- and as such bears promise and responsibility for the future, as Derrida maintains of archives.