ARCHIVE IN AKTION

In the organizer's words:

a.i.d.a. proudly presents: ARCHIVEIN AKTION

Dusting off stuff, forming piles, getting hold of as much fascist stuff as possible. The Antifascist Information, Documentation and Archive Center Munich - usually known simply by the abbreviation a.i.d.a. - does just that. An exciting life with folders and transparencies. To properly honor the 35th anniversary of the a.i.d.a. archive, the exhibition presents artists who enlighten or stir things up with their work. For example, the Ludwigshafen collection "What are you fighting for?" or the Berlin "DADA Library". The artistic works are framed by hand-picked archive material from the a.i.d.a. collection and the short film program "Blind in the right eye".

ARCHIVEIN AKTION asks what makes archives alive and brings them into civil society movement. The curatorial starting point is not the provenance of archival records in the age of their digital accessibility, but to show how knowledge for our democracy is extracted from archives. Where does the energy come from that - as in the ether - transforms the noise of information into the silence that makes action possible? For two weeks, ARCHIVEIN AKTION will be presenting processes at the Feierwerk Farbenladen that generate productive knowledge for civil society. The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive program of events relating to the archives on display.

Dates:

Vernissage/Opening
Friday, 18.10.2024, 19:00 - 22:00 h
with Ralf Homann (Munich)

Opening hours:
Saturday, 19.10. to Sunday, 27.10., 15:00 - 19:00 (on days with supporting program until 22:00)

Supporting program:

Saturday, 19.10.24, 19:00 to 22:00
"Blind in the right eye"
Short film program
curated by Florian Wüst (Berlin)

Monday, 21.10.24, 19:00 - 22:00
"Collecting, processing, rediscovering "
Tour along the exhibited a.i.d.a archives
with Robert Andreasch (Munich)

Saturday, 26.10.24, 19:00 - 22:00
"What are you fighting for? "
Collecting advertising, exhibiting protest - a multimedia insight into the archive
by Prof. Dr. Rudi Maier (University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen)

Sunday, 27.10.24, 17:00 - 22:00
"More than a message in a bottle to the future "
Lecture on the history of anti-fascist archives in the 20th century
by Prof. Dr. Christoph Kopke (Berlin School of Economics and Law)

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