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Welcome to DiVersions

DiVersions experiments with the potential of digital archives (of cultural institutions, or cultural heritage) as a site for decolonial and intersectional practice.

It is a reflection and speculation on how databased tools, infrastructures and protocols can work with and through difference.

DiVersions tests how techniques and technologies of networked collaboration can support other imaginations of the digital archive.

The two-year project is centered around seven artists proposals applied to several different e-collections (wikimedia, museum for art and history, immaterieel erfgoed,...). Their proposals are collectively developed and presented twice. Each version will be accompanied by a version of a catalog, a workshop and a public discussion. The second version of DiVersions will be presented in De Krook, Gent in spring 2020. Partners: PACKED, RoSa, UGent, Werkplaats immaterieel erfgoed.

Projects

Marie Lecrivain: Collectie van onzekerheden

Michael Murtaugh, Nicolas Malevé: Different orders co-exist

Zeljko Blace: omissiONfuzz

An Mertens: Objects made to speak / voorwerpen spreken / objets parlants

Phil Langley, Mia Melvaer: Materiële reizen door Andere Realiteiten

Zoumana Meïte: Een nieuwe vuurceremonie

Agenda 2019-2020

• 29th May 2019: DiVersions general meeting at De Krook, Ghent

• 30th May 2019: Artists work on their project, Brussels

• Early October 2019: Exhibition of the first versions of the projects, Brussels

• Mid October 2019: DiVersions residencies

Resources

A growing list of resources

Publication

Articles and other contributions

DiVersions worksession

Documentation of a worksession that was organised in 2016.