BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:829@backend.prikbord.page SUMMARY:anarchival talk with Florian Cramer DTSTAMP:20260518T064536Z DTSTART:20260521T170000Z DTEND:20260521T193000Z DESCRIPTION:eccentric (an-) archives\nhistories of experimental\, fantastic \, and anarchic archives\n\nIn the second anarchival talk we will hear fro m researcher & DIYer Florian\nCramer. During the first talk Whose Side Are You On? with Lilah V. from the Jose\nMaria Sison Legacy Foundation we dov e into the question of for whom is the\narchive? We considered a brief his tory of archiving as a science given life\nthrough revolutions of the past and how archives can be used as a weapon to\nadvance revolutionary aspira tions today. During this talk we approach the\nconcept of the anarchive fr om a viewpoint of artistic practice and collection.\nArchives are often se en as institutional\, preserving (also in the sense of\nconservative) and focused on canonical heritage. Often archives are also the\nopposite of th at: eccentric\, chaotic and/or anarchic collections\, often set up\nby peo ple who are obsessed with a certain topic and who give it an idiosyncratic \nsystem. Think of record collections\, eccentric libraries\, a hoarder’s apartment\nor collections of subcultural production. They all raise questi ons as: what is\nthe difference between a personal composition of objects\ , a collection or an\narchive? When does it become important to document h istory by means of objects?\n\nDuring his lecture\, Florian will dive into these questions with the audience\,\nwith examples such as the bookstore and later library of the Mexican-Dutch\nartist Ulises Carrión\, the Black Ark from dub producer Lee “Scratch” Perry\, but\nalso problematic cases su ch as the Wunderkammen during the colonial period.\n\nabout Florian Cramer \n\nPractice-oriented research professor at Willem de Kooning Academy + wr iter and\nDIY media maker since the postpunk-era of the '80s. Associate me mber of the\nPearl River Delta-based Display Distribute collective\, runni ng the Rotterdam\nRelay Center of its volunteer-run global courier network LIGHT LOGISTICS.\nRecently\, he donated his 100kg heavy zine archive abou t subcultural currents of\nNeoism and Mail Art to the archive of the Unive rsity of Dundee in Scotland. URL:https://backend.prikbord.page/event/anarchival-talk-with-florian-cramer LOCATION:Roodkapje - Roodkapje Keileweg 10A Rotterdam Netherlands STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:libspeciaal::source::radar,libspeciaal::source::radar::rdam-alt- events,category::discussion/presentation,libspeciaal::price::free,category ::exhibition,libspeciaal::uid::23825c3c-af3d-4f21-a902-4e9505832127,libspe ciaal::lastmod::1779053558,libspeciaal::url::https://radar.squat.net/en/ev ent/rotterdam/rotterdam-alternative-events/2026-05-21/anarchival-talk-flor ian-cramer X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

eccentric (an-) archives
histories o f experimental, fantastic, and anarchic archives

In the second anarchival talk we will hear from researcher & DIYer Florian Cramer. During the first talk Whose Side Are You On? with Lilah V. from the Jose M aria Sison Legacy Foundation we dove into the question of for whom is the archive? We considered a brief history of archiving as a science given lif e through revolutions of the past and how archives can be used as a weapon to advance revolutionary aspirations today. During this talk we approach the concept of the anarchive from a viewpoint of artistic practice and col lection. Archives are often seen as institutional, preserving (also in the sense of conservative) and focused on canonical heritage. Often archives are also the opposite of that: eccentric, chaotic and/or anarchic collecti ons, often set up by people who are obsessed with a certain topic and who give it an idiosyncratic system. Think of record collections, eccentric li braries, a hoarder’s apartment or collections of subcultural production. T hey all raise questions as: what is the difference between a personal comp osition of objects, a collection or an archive? When does it become import ant to document history by means of objects?

During his lecture, Fl orian will dive into these questions with the audience, with examples such as the bookstore and later library of the Mexican-Dutch artist Ulises Car rión, the Black Ark from dub producer Lee “Scratch” Perry, but also proble matic cases such as the Wunderkammen during the colonial period.

about Florian Cramer

Practice-oriented rese arch professor at Willem de Kooning Academy + writer and DIY media maker s ince the postpunk-era of the '80s. Associate member of the Pearl River Del ta-based Display Distribute collective, running the Rotterdam Relay Center of its volunteer-run global courier network LIGHT LOGISTICS. Recently, he donated his 100kg heavy zine archive about subcultural currents of Neoism and Mail Art to the archive of the University of Dundee in Scotland.

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