Archive of Gestures

01/06/2022 — 31/12/2024

Screenshot of the Web Collage Archive of Gestures: Becoming in/visible.

https://archiveofgestures.net

from June 2022

Online/offline research platform and archive-in-progress by Elske Rosenfeld with District*School without Center

ARCHIVE OF GESTURES studies the embodiment of revolt and revolution. Movements and practices found in documents of supposedly completed or failed revolutions from 1989/90 to today are processed into a series of poetic-conceptual GESTURES, each consisting of a video work, corresponding web collage, and activations. These initiate and document searches for visual, textual, somatic methodologies of releasing onto the present the stored up political impulse of past emancipations.

Supported by Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, NEUSTART KULTUR, BBK Bundesverband, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur.