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Open Archive 3.0

27 October 2022 - 9 April 2023

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Daria Kiseleva, Remco Torenbosch and duo Alice Wong & Simo Tse each present a new media work for this third edition of Open Archive, based on the open digital collections of Sound and Vision, Nieuwe Instituut, and the International Institute of Social History.

Open Archive 3.0. Video Bram van der Giessen and Eva Langerak.

New stories have arisen from this heritage: about a Cantonese radio programme for Chinese immigrants; about the way in which imagination manifests itself in archive images of social movements and carnival celebrations; and about the origins of the communist party in Indonesia.

Opening up digital, royalty-free collections for creative re-use yields new and surprising stories for both makers and institutions. It also provides insight into the user-friendliness and accessibility of collections, and into the technical and copyright implications of re-use. Nieuwe Instituut and Sound & Vision are working together with the International Institute of Social History to stimulate the creative re-use of open, digital heritage collections.

Artists Alice Wong & Simo Tse, Remco Torenbosch and Daria Kiseleva were selected for the Open Archive 3.0 project following an open call.

Read more about this project on openarchief.com

Alice Wong & Simo Tse

Voices and Breaths is an audiovisual installation based on Snelle Berichten Nederland-China [Quick Messages The Netherlands-China], a Cantonese-language radio programme about Dutch news. During their research Wong and Tse came across a private collection of cassette tapes with recordings made by one of the former radio presenters. The comparison between institutionalised archives and this personal collection provides interesting insights into how stories can be recorded and retold.

Alice & Simo's research blog on openarchief.com

Remco Torenbosch

Partai Komunis Indonesia (1914 – 1966) is a work that focuses on the history of the Indonesian communist party PKI. It was founded during the Dutch colonial period by the Indonesian national movement and the socialist movement in the Netherlands. With this work, Torenbosch attempts to re-archive this history, that is scantily archived in the Netherlands, as extensively as possible.

Remco's research blog on openarchief.com

Daria Kiseleva

Kiseleva’s video installation examines how, in the archives, imagination is reflected in utopian ideas, political fantasies and carnival celebrations. It traces the ‘haunting’ futures inside the archives and examines their material manifestations in social reality and political and cultural thought. With this, Kiseleva explores the connection between utopian ideas and social movements. The work reflects on the history of imagination from the early modern period until today, and on how power structures have tried to censor and control it.

Daria's research blog on openarchief.com

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