Announcement: Open Archief 4.0 Residence
Framer Framed is pleased to announce the residents selected for the Open Archief 4.0 project, supported by Nieuwe Instituut, Sound & Vision, the International Institute of Social History and Framer Framed. Wassila Abboud and mo Futures submitted proposals via an open call and will begin a four-month residency together with the collaborating institutions.
Open Archief focuses on the creative reuse of archival materials. The participants will use the (open) digital collections and extended network of the partner organisations to create a new publication – available both in physical and digital form – in which artistic research and the creative process are central.
The project team, together with former resident Simo Tse, chose the two residents from the open call because of their unique proposals, their practice & portfolios and the way in which they aim to activate and question the way heritage institutions and shared memory can and could function. Envisioning both new ways of reflecting on contemporary collections and at the same time looking forward towards new modes of archiving.
By making their open digital collections available for creative reuse, the collaborating partners hope to gain a greater insight into the accessibility, activation and user-friendliness of their collections, their function as keeper of heritage materials and to better facilitate and support users in the development of an autonomous work of art.
The selected artists have until January to develop their research and artistic practice further and to create a new publication under the supervision of experts from the four collaborative partners. The publication – accommodated by a public presentation and two freely accessible Re:Use clinics – will be published via print and digitally at the end of the residency period in the beginning of 2026.
About
Wassila Abboud is a cultural worker and writer researching in Amsterdam. Her work engages with critical theory, philosophy, and visual culture and takes on a speculative and materialist approach, examining the conditions of past and present historical struggles—particularly through the philosophical and theoretical works of Mahdi Amel. Through intergenerational archives, essays, film, and diagrammatic forms, she examines how the histories imposed on us in the present can be read through past fragments and inheritances. Her approach moves beyond the separation of the personal, theoretical, and historical, treating their entanglement as both a field and a medium for radical social thought. She recently completed a philosophy fellowship with Foreign Objekt and has presented research at International Institute of Social History, W139, Perdu and Gemaal op Zuid in the Netherlands, and upcoming at West Space in Melbourne.
Photo courtesy of Wassila Abboud.
mo Futures is a visual artist, archivist, writer and world-builder exploring the worlds of creation, imagination and spirit work. They do this through video- and photo- installations, archives, (self)portraiture, multimedia collages and the written word. Their ever-expanding archives radiate joy, hope, pleasure, and waywardness – responding to the urgent needs for positive visual representation of and for their communities. With their art they facilitate dreams about better worlds, create spaces to heal and fuel the flames of queer Afropeanfuturism.
Image courtesy of mo Futures
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