Counter Collections - Dialogues between Urban Space and Archives

Counter Collections - Dialogues between Urban Space and Archives

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Counter Collections - Dialogues between Urban Space and Archives

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How can collections and archives reshape the histories that cities tell about themselves? Counter-Collections: Dialogues Across Urban Space and Archives brings together artists, curators, architects, and researchers to explore how overlooked community-based archives and collections can move beyond institutional frameworks, becoming active civic agents through artistic and spatial interventions within medium-sized cities.

Emerging from Counter-Kiosk, an artistic research project developed in Braga, Portugal, as part of the Braga 25 Portuguese Capital of Culture—where five artists were invited to transform five abandoned kiosks into public exhibition platforms across the city—this volume uses this situated case to open broader questions about how cities collect, display, and contest their histories. Through conversations between artists involved in the project and contributors from other geographies, the book weaves together perspectives from architecture, ecology, trans studies, Roma feminism, and postcolonial critique.

Structured across three actions—“Collecting”, “Dialoguing”, and “Countering”—this publication unfolds through dialogues, visual essays, and critical reflections addressing representation, accountability, and the politics of working with community-based archives. In a time of ecological and social urgency, this book invites readers to reconsider how urban infrastructures and collective memory can be rearranged through attention, confrontation, dialogue, and imagination.

ISBN-13
9789493382046
Publisher
Onomatopee
Imprint
Onomatopee
Publication date
15 May 2026
Format
Paperback
Pages
530
Dimensions
170 x 110 mm
Language
English

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