The Nomadic Curriculum: A photo series
Central to the Academy is the co-developed and collectively practiced research approach termed as the “nomadic curriculum” in which the research groups test and practice forms of knowledge and gathering as hands-on approaches within specific archival settings while spatially expanding on the peripheries between different archival sites. This nomadic curriculum takes shape in the movements, research, and visualizations around archival contexts that, in their interplay, shape the present. For the Academy’s second edition, the curriculum re-examined the implications of site-specific research as an online, remote methodology due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Laura Fiorio attended the research processes as a participatory observer and gave visual shape to the materials, objects and contexts of the archival sites. She formed the digital dossiers that provided access to these sites for the workshop groups and their research. The series of archival photos serve as digital site visits and the nomadic curriculum is thus reshaped, continuing to question the institutional boundedness of knowledge and the possibilities of mobilizing bodies of knowledge, documentation and archive expansion.
Museum, Laura Fiorio, 2021.
Museum, Laura Fiorio, 2021.
Museum, Stasi Records Archive, Laura Fiorio, 2021.
Museum, Laura Fiorio, 2021.
Museum Berlin: Southeast Asian
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Museum Berlin: Southeast Asian
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Connected Material
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