To archive, collect, feel
where scholarship, art, and activism meet to speculate what lies beyond “archives” as location, object, origin, or source.
A work in practice
“The Sense Archive” engages with histories of sensation as inextricable from histories of perception. Our project pivots towards archive in its verb form to signal an active and ongoing constructing of historical-contemporary conjunctures.
This is our body copy. Long form text will be this size. This is the workhorse font and style of the website. So let’s make sure that this size looks good to hold any information that we will have to hold. “The Sense Archive” engages with histories of sensation as inextricable from histories of perception. Our project pivots towards archive in its verb form to signal an active and ongoing constructing of historical-contemporary conjunctures. “The Sense Archive” aims to register a unified method that we will continue developing through our various Phase One collaborations.
“The Sense Archive” is, then, purposefully distinct from projects of “archiving the senses,” which might suggest works organized more broadly around historical sensoria. “The Sense Archive” insists on the (itinerant) double-vision of historical-contemporary conjuncture as its first principle of scholarly-activist praxis.
This is our body copy. Long form text will be this size. This is the workhorse font and style of the website. So let’s make sure that this size looks good to hold any information that we will have to hold. “The Sense Archive” engages with histories of sensation as inextricable from histories of perception. Our project pivots towards archive in its verb form to signal an active and ongoing constructing of historical-contemporary conjunctures. “The Sense Archive” aims to register a unified method that we will continue developing through our various Phase One collaborations.
“The Sense Archive” is, then, purposefully distinct from projects of “archiving the senses,” which might suggest works organized more broadly around historical sensoria. “The Sense Archive” insists on the (itinerant) double-vision of historical-contemporary conjuncture as its first principle of scholarly-activist praxis.