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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, Werkplaats 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.

DiVersions is made possible with financial support from The Flemish Government.

Projects

• Marie Lecrivain (proto-prototype Martin Campillo): 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
• Cristina Cochior: Veranderingen en verschuivingen
• Zoumana Meïte: Een nieuwe vuurceremonie

Agenda 2019-2020

• 29+30th May 2019: DiVersions meeting at De Krook, Ghent + Hacktiris, Brussels

• 30th May 2019: Project development, Brussels (and elsewhere)

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

• Mid October 2019: DiVersions residencies

• Spring 2020: Exhibition of the second versions of the projects, Ghent

Collections

• Museum for Art and History (Carmentis)
• Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België
• WikiMedia België
• The Archive and Research Centre for Women’s History
• Werkplaats Immaterieel Erfgoed: immaterieelerfgoed.be
• Mundaneum archiefcentrum

Resources

A growing list of resources

Publication

Articles and other contributions

DiVersions worksession

Documentation of the worksession that was organised with the Museum for Arts and History in 2016.