20seconds - Issue 9 - "The Archive" - magazine for experimental music and art

Featuring: A Fidai Film, Archivio dei Movimenti di via Avesella, Dónal Foreman, GAUNG, Giorno Poetry Systems, Journey into the Blue Dimension, Marcela Paniak, Pwani Tapes, wandering translators

Archives are sites of revolutions. Archives are loaded guns, and weapons found in old cabinets—in need of a good cleaning. Archives are the wars where memories are torn out of a generation’s chest so that memory becomes pain. In the violence of societally numbing bureaucracy and propaganda, archives are the places closest to home where the truth is painted over; where the story gets “too complicated” to have an honest, straightforward answer. Archives, in other words, are mirrors—for us, our societies. It is in the archive that we learn about who we were, who we are going to be and, maybe—if we can cut through the smog of oppressive capitalism and moral apathy—who we are today.

20 Seconds Issue 9: The Archive details the stories of individual archives all over the world; it’s a reminder that archives are contentious places, worthy of our attention and action. They are reflections of a very basic concept: To forget is a privilege, and a grave error.

Daniel Melfi
Editor-in-Chief

With contributions by:
Alina Oswald
Azzurra D’Agostino
Beatrice Occhini
Bonnie Whitehouse
Carmen Gallo
Dagmara Kraus
Daniela Allocca
Daniela Seel
Fabrizio Maria Spinelli
Ferdinando Tricarico
Flavia Mazzarino
Grischa Lichtenberger
Juan Ferrer
Luca Pognani
Lulu Khalef
Marco Giovenale
Marlene Gfrörer
Morgan Vallari
Nassoro Mwinyi
Nico Bleutge
Nora Zapf
Pelin Gritella
Rosa Coppola
Sabine Scho
Sumugan Sivanesan
Zé de Paiva