Nan Goldin "The ballad of sexual dependency" (1981-2022). Slide preparation prior to install. Mike Kelley "Switching Marys" (2025). Comparative analysis of different projector generation. Nam June Paik "TV Buddha" (1974) monitor calibration and sculture transport, credit: Flaminia Fortunato.
From Vies possibles et imaginaires (Editions Photosynthèses, Arles, 2012), a collaboration with Rozenn Quéré. Courtesy the artists
Neighbors_Krasimira Butseva
X-rays of Mohamed Nur. Appearing in German-linguist Maria von Tiling’s Somali Texte (1925, figs. 5 and 6)
Original inscription_ “Children rounded up to play in the sunshine”. Image was possibly produced by the Near East Foundation. Metadata added_ Armenian Genocide. Moushashan,1930’s,Syria Nigol Bezjian Collection. Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation
The negative_Krasimira Butseva
HfG Open Resource Center happily invites you to a full day program titled Archive Day: Useful Archives featuring expert discussions and artistic explorations focusing on the strategies of activating public archives and making them useful for specific communities as well as for wider audiences.
10:30-12:00 Keynote Lecture: Invisible labour and patience: A process of unleashing the AIF's collections' agency Yasmine Eid Sabbagh, Arab Image Foundation
13:00-15:00 Workshop: To care about, to care for, to care with people and objects
Flaminia Fortunato, Stedelijk Museum
15:00-17:00 Screening & Lecture Academic Film Center Belgrade Alternative Film Archive Milan Milosavljevic, Academic Film Center Belgrade / Alternative Film Archive
17:30-19:30 Panel Discussion Useful Archives Clarissa Thieme, ARchipelago (archival platform) Krasimira Butseva, The Neighbors (multimedia installation)
19:30-20:30 Sonic Performance: Notes on a Distributed Person: On Xirsi, and other incantations for Mohamed Nur
Naima Hassan, SITAAD (platform and artistic collaboration)
Funded by the Stiftung für Innovation in Hochschullehre, the team of the HfG Open Resource Center has been building HfG’s project archive platform since October 2021. It has offered various seminars and organized several events on the subject of documenting and archiving with a focus on other digitalities. As the ORC project is gradually coming to an end, it will soon be the HfG community’s turn to take care of the project archive’s future.
