Fluid Archive Launch
Author: Shen He, Tatjana Blaser and Donia Jornod
Tags: #Parity Talks IX
The idea of the fluid archive might have existed for a long time. Across wildly divergent geographic contexts and vast time spans, communities that are willing to build resistance against oppression began to talk about alternative futures, listen to voices below the silence, and collect diverse words, talks, texts and ideas that would be otherwise neglected. Collecting not for the sake of owning, but of listening, visibilising and empowering. Hence building such an archive is less about what a world is, but more about what it can become.
The fluid Archive is an ongoing project of the Parity Group that enables a living archiving culture through saving a space. As a curated platform to present and publish the knowledge production and methodology of the Parity Talks, it aims at creating a research tool that supports bottom-up learning initiatives, and a piece of infrastructure that supports offline events of the Parity Group and possibly the decentralisation of the Parity Talks over the course of the year. The Fluid Archive is a collective project that will grow with the community of the Parity Group.
During the launch we will take a virtual walk through the process and the space of the archive.