Archive Antenna
Antenna appears as an organ, found at the horns of Archive, and brings together the multitude of views, practices, and occurrences from the periphery of Archive’s world, and further trans(m)its them to each other, and to the rest of the world.
Surfacing stories from within, Antenna showcases films, audio pieces, and conversations, that reflect our ongoing efforts to bring multiple voices, positions and urgent issues to the forefront.

21.02.2025

Open Access

Archive Books
In this section we will make books freely available to read, download, and share. We believe free and autonomous dissemination of knowledge is essential, especially considering the limitations of the distribution networks for printed publications.
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14.02.2025

Remembering the Haptic Library

Publishing Practices
In the wake of histories marked by rupture and resilience, the Haptic Library is a site of remembering—a space where concealed, unloved, and insurgent knowledge resurface and overflow. Drawing inspiration from the word “hapticality,” as proposed by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in The Undercommons, the Haptic Library presents itself as a receptacle for extending “the capacity to feel through others, for others to feel through you, for you to feel them feeling you…” It questions the inherent dominance of sight and printed matter by bringing multiple approaches to inscribing and disseminating knowledge into proximity and encouraging interaction with a range of textural forms and modes of thought.
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FILM / 09:05

The Female Filmmakers of Josei-Eiga

Vivian Wenli Lin
The Female Filmmakers of Josei-Eiga is a video essay by Vivian Wenli Lin, in which she looks at what the pioneering women of Japanese cinema contributed. Josei- Eiga was an era of the women’s film and one of the most popular genres of the wartime period. In this chapter, the video essayist discusses the work of Sakane Tazuka (1904–1975) and Taneka Kinuyo (1909–1977), and the way in which they defied Japanese gender and genre norms, both on and off screen.
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