(An)archive

Influenced (or repelled) by the archival fever which has gripped contemporary art in recent decades, we try to move away from the mere aestheticization of the archive with an approach that unites theory and praxis around archive policies, economies and technologies. We question ourselves about the crisis of archives as authority and make inroads into new archive models, the so-called dissident archives, community archives or anarchist archives, which represent displaced memories and embrace omissions, fragmentation, subjectivity, oral memories and the coexistence of multiple and contradictory narratives, in a further vindication of the archive as a political space and we vindicate the necessary decolonization of the methodologies and regulations associated with archival practices and their singular manner of conditioning the way History is written.