No. 6 (2020): Archive and Memory

This issue addresses those archives and memories that act as driving forces of contemporary artistic poetics and play with the current ways of recording the present by building archives, deconstructing hegemonic discourses and memories, and practicing new connections between  experience and the conservation of time in a world that is simultaneously real, virtual, local and global. How do we imagine the post-pandemic world? How will this new collective experience affect our memory and the ways we record, select, organize and build archives? What role do archival poetics play in the awakening towards new conceptions of life, that what is livable, the present and its conservation or endurance? Some of these questions, which are inevitable in this historical context and have had an impact on the arts for a long time, penetrate the texts, artistic productions, reflections, and dialogues that we share in this journal.