Collecting Otherwise
Writing Otherwise
As part of the process of research and making public, on this page Collecting Otherwise's Working Group publishes its ongoing, always under contruction* writings that reflect on tools and methodologies, case studies and the archive.
A wandering conversation on preservation
Artist and Working Group member Hannah Dawn Henderson wanders and wonders on inhabiting as preserving.
An Annotation on Footnotes
Written by artist and working group member Hannah Dawn Henderson, a contribution for the first TNL! Public Gathering of Collecting Otherwise, on February 2021.
Vrouwen Bouwen Wonen and Networking as Feminist Practice
Networks of Care - How do we go about rebuilding communities and empowering them through the networks we build and inhabit? And how do we re-structure care in networking, as a pre-digital, nurturing, feminist practice?
Trans-Institutional Supra-Archives
Working Group member Michael Karabinos reflects on how multiple stories cut across multiple archives.
The Living Archive
Researcher Federica Notari wrote this essay as her contribution to Gathering #4: Soft Closing, in December of 2021, marking the end of the first year of Collecting Otherwise.
Reading Otherwise
This selection of essays, articles and other references is our ever-growing library list. It contributes to our research and establishes frames and lenses through which to see our case studies.
Archiving, Collectivity and Self-Publishing
Architecture / Community / Histories
Histories / Local / Power The Undutiful Daughter's Concept of Archival Metabolism
Labour / Institutions / Community Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work
Decoloniality / Gaps / Histories What you see
Gaps / Narratives / Care Moving Toward a Reparative Archive
Gaps / Histories / Authorship The Power of the Archive and its Limits
Gender / Labour / Care The Secretary: Invisible Labor in the Workworld of Women
Collection / Netherlands / Labour Colonial Constructions of a Dutch Women's Movement: 1898
Gaps / Photography / Unseen Chasing Phantoms in the Archives: The Australia House Photograph Collection
Media / Collectives / Decoloniality Inward Outward, Critical Archival Engagements with Sounds and Films of Coloniality
Archival Theories / Feminism / Gender Critical Feminism in the Archives
Living, Fluidity and Space
Queer / Architecture / Gaps Queering Architecture: (Un)Making Places
Space / Histories / Process A Room of One's Own
Narratives / Subjectivity / Origins Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories
Queer / Gaps / Subjectivity Cartographies of the Present
Community / Histories / Performance Performing the Archival Body: Inciting Queered Feminist (Dis)locational Rhetorics Through Place-Based Pedagogies
Histories / Narratives / Institution Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
Decoliality / Narratives / Archiving Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
Gaps / Gender / Navigation Architecture from without: Body, Logic, and Sex
Queer / Space / Dialogues Queering Architecture: Diversity of Gender and Sexuality in the Profession
Narratives / Archiving / Feminism Matrix Group Pool
Feminism / Architects / History The Not-Seen
Telling, Positionality and Care
Intersectionality / Gaps / Dialogue Choosing The Margin As A Space Of Radical Openness
Narratives / Fluidity / Collectivity Poetry Is Not a Luxury (1985)
Decoloniality / Narratives / Gaps Refusing to Take Root
Community / Narratives / Collectivity On Care and Carelessness
Design / Technology / Representation As if
Intimacy / Activism / Self-publishing Harm Reduction is Not a Metaphor
Narratives / Histories / Identity The records of memory, the archives of identity: Celebrations, texts and archival sensibilities