How can we think about acts of recovering, re-publishing and making documents accessible as artistic gestures? What happens when documents that have already been published are made public again?
For Hate Library, an installation presented at Transmediale 2018, I took publicly available social media and web forum discussions between members of far-right groups from around Europe and transferred them into a public space of exhibition. With reference to Harun Farocki's political film tradition, Lisa Gitelman's sociology of documents, Eyal Weizman's forensic aesthetic, methods of file sharing and leaking, and my own practice, this commissioned response examines how documents can become matters of public concern through their "social lives"—through re-publishing, sharing, and discussing them.
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Document Practices [article]
Document Practices [article], 2018
(Transmediale Journal)
