Al Archive

03/04/2018

A group of 6 visual makers and researchers met during a 2 day workshop on subjective archiving entitled ‘Al-Archive’. The chosen theme was ‘political shame’ and the WORM Pirate Bay archives were open for collecting references and materials.
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[OUTCOME]
Screened during Rotterdam's Museumnacht 2018. *To be online soon*

THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, 1989.
Genre: Political P***o
2’20’’ video-loop.
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The 80s have witnessed the build up of the political and activist momentum leading to the fall of the Berlin wall. protestors were flooding the streets, claiming their city back and rebelling against the divide. That era represents an accumulation of erotica, punk and repressed shame leading to a climax.
Political shame has lead to a historical revelation, however, societies became passive with the 90s and the rise of consumerism, the wall was rebuilt and is now ready for another earth-shattering or**sm.
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[CREDITS]
Jonathan Auch
Francesco Degl’Innocenti
Imad Gebrayel
Aoife Lawrence
Natalia Salloum
Serdal Sertdemir
Frederic Vandevelde

28/02/2018

Last 2 days to register to our WORM Rotterdam Workshop, here's the booking link:

WORM organiseert events met Stager - superstrakke ticket service en eventplanner in één.

12/02/2018

Al Archive X WORM Pirate bay!! A 2-day workshop on March 2+3 at WORM Rotterdam. Please check the link for more information and spread the word.

Al Archive X WORM Pirate Bay: a two-day visualisation workshop Al Archive is a workshop series inviting visual makers (be they designers, visual artists, photographers, animators, etc..) to visuali…

07/02/2018

Testing our subjective archiving process with a small group of talented creatives. The pilot was held at Printroom Rotterdam. Outcome(s) visualizing 9/11 will be published soon.

04/10/2017

Gorilla is a visual column that comments on current affairs through words and images. De Designpolitieie states: 'In our capacity as designers, we find it important to become involved in social debate. That brings with it a certain responsibility and opportunity we eagerly take to be able to share reports on social topics with the rest of the world'.
What do you think of such initiatives and how to transform such efforts into an impactful 'voice'?
http://www.designpolitie.nl/case/gorilla/

25/09/2017

Alterative facts: Lebanon's history via pop culture. Since Lebanon still lacks a unified history book for the period that covers the war, due to the absence of a winner and therefore the prevalence of a single version of the events, and as time goes by - instead of losing all traces of the past - why not replace the divisive "politics" by the colletive memory which emanates from pop culture? This is a project by Tarek Chemaly to (re)write the history of Lebanon in a perspective everyone agrees upon.

The video art of Tarek Chemaly, other opinions are voiced through www.beirutntsc.blogspot.com

21/09/2017

Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers and designers to map their country as they see it. As a result, 'The subjective Atlas of Palestine' won awards and gained international recognition. What do you think of de Vet's approach? Could documentation succeed without taking political sides?

19/09/2017

Pilot version launched and documented - Results to be published soon! Thank you PrintRoom for hosting 'Al Archive'.

19/09/2017

‘Al Archive’ is a workshop series inviting visual makers (be they designers, visual artists, photographers, animators, etc..) to visualize key moments in our recent history through comparing sources and contexts. The multiple outcomes and perspectives are meant to be collected and mediated as a ‘subjective archive’ targeting communication and media platforms. Moreover, the workshop encourages cross-disciplinary collaborations with journalists, writers, historians and theorists from different backgrounds.