Fictive Archive Investigations is a collective of 16 researchers from a variety of locations and artistic disciplines, whose questions converge around fiction in the archive.
The archive is defined as a repository of information relating to one or more individuals, organisations or places and contributes to the construction of what we perceive as truth. It attests to a tangible past: its position is concrete and authoritative. However, its selectivity alone betrays its subjectivity. The processes of preservation, accumulation, sorting, acquisition and cataloguing include absences, losses and des- tructions, making it inherently incomplete, always open. The ‘investigations’ carried out by Fictive Archive Investigations use the archive as a starting point to create bridges with the past, to delve into the documents of yesteryear, but also to dream about what we read, see and discover.
It is all about seeing the archive as a genuine source of material for creative work.
The exhibition Memories Gone Wild, conceived by this group, is a work of fiction divided into four sections, like so many narrative spaces in which each of the works exhibited offers a personal and fictional in- terpretation of the archive. The first section evokes imaginary territories and literary fictions; the second proposes a focus on certain characters; the third section is inspired by real historical and social facts; the last section explores the archive as a metaphor for the memory process.
Group members:
Elise Billiard Pisani (FR) & Margerita Pulè (MT), Philippe Black (BE), Balthazar Blumberg (FR), Giordano Bruno do Nascimento (DE & BR), Juan Cárdenas (CO), Alexis Choplain & Noëlie Plé (BE), Céline Cuvelier (BE), Claire Ducène (BE), Patrick Gaïaudo (FR), Cecilia Hurtado (MEX), Stéphanie Roland (BE), Agata Skupniewicz (PL), Sam Vanoverschelde (BE), Julian Walker (UK).