Anarchiving Propositions (September 2015 to March 2016)

September 2015 to March 2016, Montreal

Once every week during a period of six months the SenseLab experimented with the concept of the anarchive. Departing from questioning a) how else could research-creation processes be shared forth and b) how to avoid predetermination. The exploration moved within a series of conversations to speculate-create-invent the concept and with the concept. A turn toward materiality and the forces of materiality eventuated. A long canvas allowed to enter into the concept differently. Procedures and techniques for anarchiving were crafted in-formed by the anarchiving cloth, its own memory and multiplicities. Anarchival machines proliferated: a long one to experiment merely with the becoming crease by a push and pull game, a bundled one to experiment with folding and unfolding techniques, a triangular one to build an anarchival writing machine that found out that writing could take many forms and that water and cloth make living organisms that write their own traces, a thinner one to experiment with ways of drawing movement, and another triangular one to play with how movement moves modularly across registers. All these instances are part of a process to build an exhibition on material practices in relation to anarchival forces.