Hoarding Fever/Archive Fatigue (Studio Course)

Harvard FAS

Why do we decide to keep things? What politics hide in taxonomy? How do citizenship, colonialism, and death relate to our stuff? And what’s the deal with Marie Kondo? This studio course will use the discourses around Archive and research based practice as a starting point for developing work in a range of media. We will look at existing archives, develop our own collections as a form of artistic practice, and destabilize the authority of archives by considering informal, queer,…