Living Archives project members Erling Björgvinsson and Anders Høg Hansen went to the Popmodernism Circle at the Nordic Summer University in Turku, Finland, to present their paper entitled Archiving Bodies – Bodies, Leisure and (territorial) Politics.
The author’s use Malraux’s problematic notion of “the museum without walls” – where disparate items can reside side by side, forming arbitrary collages – as its main focal point. They also raise the question “who can be considered archivists?” and tries to answer it through two case studies: City Symphony Malmö, a collaborative documentary film project, and Songlines, a project still-in-the-making where the aim is to bring historical songs into the urban present.
This paper has not been officially published but we aim to share it on this website shortly.