As a starting point, it brings together the numerous projects that have been carried out here in recent years.
The Broken Archive is a project curated by the Villa Romana team.
Artistic works and texts emerge like archipelagos in search of community, resonance, connection. The Broken Archive seeks to create rhizomatic references across the transcontinental Mediterranean region. Keywords and a search function offer additional orientation and a range of references. These projects are presented with images, texts, PDFs, and films or trailers on the corresponding artists’ pages. A variety of artistic projects is organized into twelve cluster terms. The archive is also “broken” because the website is designed not as a canonical archive, but as an open, variable, dense network. The Mediterranean region has become a buffer zone between the comfort zone of the North and the conflict zone of the South. The archive is “broken” because the region’s cultural wealth is barely perceived anymore. NmmThe Broken Archive brings together artistic projects that investigate the history of and present-day life in the Mediterranean region. NmmOr by appointment outside opening The Broken ArchiveĮleni Kamma's 2012 solo exhibition From Bank To Bank On A Gradual Slope at Villa Romana, Florence is part of The Broken Archive NmmThursday, Friday, and Saturday from 3 pm until 5:30 pm NmmOpening on Friday 29.10.21 from 6:30 p.m. NmmSPACE → En Féronstrée 116, B-4000 Liège
In Casting Call, Eleni Kamma employs performative strategies and appropriates theatrical tools to playfully ask serious questions about living well together and the role of public space and time in contemporary Europe. It is an investigation into the notion of parrhesia, the courage to speak one’s mind, approached from a comedic and excessive perspective. Mm CASTING CALL: THE COLLECTOR OF PROVERBS, THE ANIMAL, THE FOOL, THE SELFIE-JUNKIE, THE INNOCENT, THE CHILD, THE DRUNK, THE…Ĭasting Call (2017-ongoing) is a series of related attempts, events and manifestations.