Awkward Archives. Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum (Archive books, 2022)
edited with Margareta von Oswald (open-access)
Short description
Awkward Archives proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An ethnographic research approach is confronted with the demands of archival research as both disciplines challenge their inner logics and epistemologies. Through fieldwork and ethnographic tools and methods, both analogue and digital, the editors take various contemporary archival sites in Berlin as case studies to elaborate on controversial concepts in Western thought. Presenting as such a modular curriculum on archives in their awkwardness—with the tensions, discomfort and antagonisms they pose.
Case studies and contributions
Bernd Scherer and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Franka Schneider and the Hahne-Niehoff Archive, the Tahani Nadim and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock and SAVVY Contemporary's Colonial Neighbours Archive Project, Yann LeGall and the Archive of Punitive Expeditions in German Colonies, Hannes Hacke and the Naomi-Wilzig Collection of Erotic Art
Download the book here
https://www.archivebooks.org/awkward-archives/
Reviews, events, discussions
New Books Network (July 2023), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin, May 2023), HKW (Berlin, March 2022), Thinking Through the Museum Network (Toronto/online, Feb 2023)
edited with Margareta von Oswald (open-access)
Short description
Awkward Archives proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An ethnographic research approach is confronted with the demands of archival research as both disciplines challenge their inner logics and epistemologies. Through fieldwork and ethnographic tools and methods, both analogue and digital, the editors take various contemporary archival sites in Berlin as case studies to elaborate on controversial concepts in Western thought. Presenting as such a modular curriculum on archives in their awkwardness—with the tensions, discomfort and antagonisms they pose.
Case studies and contributions
Bernd Scherer and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Franka Schneider and the Hahne-Niehoff Archive, the Tahani Nadim and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock and SAVVY Contemporary's Colonial Neighbours Archive Project, Yann LeGall and the Archive of Punitive Expeditions in German Colonies, Hannes Hacke and the Naomi-Wilzig Collection of Erotic Art
Download the book here
https://www.archivebooks.org/awkward-archives/
Reviews, events, discussions
New Books Network (July 2023), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin, May 2023), HKW (Berlin, March 2022), Thinking Through the Museum Network (Toronto/online, Feb 2023)