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The Unreliable Archives: a metamorphosis?

What underground shifts and lines in the lanscapes are next in The Unreliable Archives?Maybe an unravelling, a falling apart, a rotting? Maybe new collaborations, new places. What do the stones tell us? What is sure is there will be a … Continue reading

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The Unreliable Archives Trailer

A sneak peak at what you could experience as co-archivists in The Unreliable Archives. Welcome to the upcoming editions: 2-4 june: OORZAKEN festival, @Brakkegrond, Vlaams Cultuurhuis in Amsterdam 31 juni-2 juli: DANSAND Festival @KAAP, Oostende. Website Poppy Verstraete: http://cmo-verstraetepoppy.myportfolio.com

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The Unreliable Archives: gedachten, foto’s en een review

WTF! festival @VIERNULVIER was een wervelwind en het stof is net aan het neerdalen. Het was goed om nog eens de wereld van The Unreliable Archives open te vouwen in een heel andere ruimte. Alles is er al, maar, omdat … Continue reading

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The Unreliable Archives @WTF! festival VIERNULVIER 22-25 november 2022

Hoe kunnen we onze verhouding tegenover onze omgeving en elkaar transformeren? ‘The Unreliable Archives’ is een audio-installatie-performance over de onbetrouwbaarheid van (collectieve) herinneringen.  Een archief kan nooit betrouwbaar of volledig zijn: het is een subjectieve verzameling van fragmenten, geordend door … Continue reading

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A glimpse inside The Unreliable Archives, May 2022, Timelab

The ISSU online version of the Brochure of The Unreliable Archives Welcome to The Unreliable Archives. This is a geological archive of unreliable collective memories. I think that this is also what you could call history. I needed to sit … Continue reading

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The Unreliable Archives @timelab in Mei

English: The Unreliable Archives The Unreliable Archives is a geological installation-performance, an archive of unreliable collective memories. I needed to sit with complexity, so I sat with rocks. I didn’t know where I was going by sitting with rocks. My … Continue reading

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The Unreliable Archives: verdere ontwikkeling

The Unreliable Archives wordt een installatie performance over de onbetrouwbaarheid van (collectieve) herinneringen. Mijn vader was exploratiegeoloog en werkte in de mijnbouw. Via zijn rotscollectie en geologische verhalen en een fascinatie voor meer-dan-menselijke vormen van intelligentie ben ik in een … Continue reading

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How to make room?

How to make space? Having a studio space for a few weeks in CAMPO in Gent to be able to build prototypes and work things out spacially and visually makes a huge difference. We worked on building a prototype space … Continue reading

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Unfold a room – Stanza: on Proximity

Stanza means room in Italian and a verse in poetry or a rhythmical text. What does it mean for two or more artists to work on their own research and practice in proximity with each other? To share an in-between … Continue reading

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Unfolding The Unreliable Archives

April 2021, Rataplan, Antwerp, under the wings of Mestizo Arts Platform. As part of a joint residency with Enrica Camporesi: ‘Stanza: on proximity’. (more about this in a separate blogpost) In the Photos: Enrica Camporesi, Duraid Abbas, Charlotte Peys, Mulanga … Continue reading

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