Archive in the Works plays on the double sense of the archive as a site under construction and as a field continuously reshaped by the artworks that activate it. Through critical and aesthetic interventions that foreground the archive’s negotiated character, archival art destabilises conventional ways of organising, preserving, and representing memory. In the Latin American context, these interventions engage collections shaped by histories of colonial extraction, displacement, and uneven regimes of inscription, where violence and silence remain structurally embedded. This volume brings together reflections and creative responses from the first Activation Lab, an experimental research and creation platform for Latin American artists working with archival materials.

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con·stel·la·tions publiziert kollaborative Wissenszusammenhänge, die an der Schnittstelle von künstlerischer und akademischer Praxis entstanden sind. 

con·stel·la·tions showcases the results of collaborative research at the intersection of artistic and academic practice.

Die Reihe ist ein Format der gleichnamigen Plattform für kollaborative, vernetzte und transdisziplinäre Formate des Exzellenzclusters 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective an der Freien Universität Berlin. Im engen Dialog mit außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen und Kulturinstitutionen — Museen, Theatern, Archiven, Bibliotheken — verbindet der Bereich Perspektiven und Methoden aus Kunst und Wissenschaft.

The series is a project of the eponymous hub for networked and transdisciplinary work conceived within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective at Freie Universität Berlin. Entering into close dialogue with cultural institutions such as museums, theatres, archives and libraries, the CONSTELLATIONS hub conjoins methods and perspectives from scholarship, the arts and knowledge formations beyond the university.