Open Call
Call for Malta-based artists, writers and researchers
Fictive Archive Investigations is a group of artists and researchers brought together by visual artist Claire Ducène.
Since 2021, they have been sharing their research into the fictive archive and held an exhibition in Brussels in 2023 entitled "Memories Gone Wild". The group is made up of artists from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, with the aim of proposing varied research into the archive as an artistic medium.
Today, the first section of the group, entitled 'Explorations', is looking for Maltese artists, writers and researchers who are developing a project around the 'island', its archives and the creation of fiction.
Introduction
Today, archives are at a turning point and are now being used as medium in themselves. Once seen as a guarantee of truth to understand history, the archive is now being reused by contemporary artists, and even fabricated as a source of artistic creation using approaches comparable to archaeology or even detective investigation. The meaning of the archive is questioned and turned upside down, challenging the contemporary artist as a potential source for imagining new forms. Between history and creation. Between document and fiction.
The artist appropriates the archive for its documentary value and its apparent truth, even if its seemingly frozen appearance is transformed. This new document loses its archival status and becomes "other". It's a form of writing that is sometimes on the fringes of ethics, opening the door to a new order, a new history, a new narrative. A narrative born of transformed historical research. The gaps and lacunae in the fragmentary narrative of history are reinterpreted by the artist, if not totally distorted.
Archives reveal its fragility in the continual dilution that Time inflicts upon it.
An archive of new truths and invented fictions.
Call to Malta-based artists, writers and researchers from a wide range of disciplines to create a think tank around the concept of the archival island.
The aim of this call for proposals is to bring together a group of artists and researchers who share the same concerns about the island as a fictional archive. On the one hand, contemporary artists/writers whose work is inspired by it and, on the other, researchers from a variety of backgrounds. In fact, the fictional archive is at the heart of research by historians, art historians and archivists, but also, by extension, by other disciplines such as law, psychology and computer science...
Methodology
Following the call, a research group will be set up to organize a residency and an exhibition.
Questions around several concepts:
- The notion of lying / altering facts as a plastic creation;
- Ethics and political involvement;
- The fictional archive in the digital and contemporary age;
- How do we archive archives that didn't even 'really' exist?
As well as other questions that will be raised during the course of the meetings.
Terms and conditions of participation
Researchers and artists interested in taking part in this project are invited to send a text in PDF format setting out the framework of their research and their motivations before the 1rst of July 2023. Maximum length A4.
This is an independent initiative, with a group of independent artists. No funds or support other than intellectual, moral or creative are available at this point. However we hope to work together as a group to secure the resources needed for the project.
Sending email address: claireducene@gmail.com/ margeritapule@gmail.com
About us
For information about our past projects: Claireducene.be/Fictive-Archive-Investigations
Since 2021, they have been sharing their research into the fictive archive and held an exhibition in Brussels in 2023 entitled "Memories Gone Wild". The group is made up of artists from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, with the aim of proposing varied research into the archive as an artistic medium.
Today, the first section of the group, entitled 'Explorations', is looking for Maltese artists, writers and researchers who are developing a project around the 'island', its archives and the creation of fiction.
Introduction
Today, archives are at a turning point and are now being used as medium in themselves. Once seen as a guarantee of truth to understand history, the archive is now being reused by contemporary artists, and even fabricated as a source of artistic creation using approaches comparable to archaeology or even detective investigation. The meaning of the archive is questioned and turned upside down, challenging the contemporary artist as a potential source for imagining new forms. Between history and creation. Between document and fiction.
The artist appropriates the archive for its documentary value and its apparent truth, even if its seemingly frozen appearance is transformed. This new document loses its archival status and becomes "other". It's a form of writing that is sometimes on the fringes of ethics, opening the door to a new order, a new history, a new narrative. A narrative born of transformed historical research. The gaps and lacunae in the fragmentary narrative of history are reinterpreted by the artist, if not totally distorted.
Archives reveal its fragility in the continual dilution that Time inflicts upon it.
An archive of new truths and invented fictions.
Call to Malta-based artists, writers and researchers from a wide range of disciplines to create a think tank around the concept of the archival island.
The aim of this call for proposals is to bring together a group of artists and researchers who share the same concerns about the island as a fictional archive. On the one hand, contemporary artists/writers whose work is inspired by it and, on the other, researchers from a variety of backgrounds. In fact, the fictional archive is at the heart of research by historians, art historians and archivists, but also, by extension, by other disciplines such as law, psychology and computer science...
Methodology
Following the call, a research group will be set up to organize a residency and an exhibition.
Questions around several concepts:
- The notion of lying / altering facts as a plastic creation;
- Ethics and political involvement;
- The fictional archive in the digital and contemporary age;
- How do we archive archives that didn't even 'really' exist?
As well as other questions that will be raised during the course of the meetings.
Terms and conditions of participation
Researchers and artists interested in taking part in this project are invited to send a text in PDF format setting out the framework of their research and their motivations before the 1rst of July 2023. Maximum length A4.
This is an independent initiative, with a group of independent artists. No funds or support other than intellectual, moral or creative are available at this point. However we hope to work together as a group to secure the resources needed for the project.
Sending email address: claireducene@gmail.com/ margeritapule@gmail.com
About us
For information about our past projects: Claireducene.be/Fictive-Archive-Investigations