Toward a messy archive

Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design was first established as a progressive school on April 15, 1992. It was founded by Heinrich Klotz between the years 1989 and 1992, together with the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. The combination of teaching, research, and exhibition institutions addresses the given artistic and pedagogic task of relating traditional arts to media technology and electronic production processes.

Toward a messy archive

aspect-ratio 10x9 — Intervention in the public space, Bochum, 2021 (© Messy Archive Group)

Intervention in the public space, Bochum, 2021 (© Messy Archive Group)

Those who archive decide what remains. The Messy Archive Group cuts the linear threads of historiography and goes in search of traces of a possible but forgotten future. In a temporary archive, they excavate histories thought lost: How can they remember those who were never helped into visibility?

The Messy Archive Group uses various media - intervention, theater, performance, publication - to investigate voids in the memory work of feminist historiography. The literary basis is formed by texts by authors Kathy Acker, Linda Stupart, Virginia Woolf and Flora Tristan, among others.

Messy Archive Group: Teresa Häußler, Caroline Kapp, Desiree Kabis, Ina Römling, Laura Kansy und Marie Bloching

Student: Teresa Häußler

Supervision: Hanne König, Thomas Rustemeyer

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