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SEARCH
7+1 Acts of Survival is the first chapter of a broader curatorial framework structured in three phases — Memory, Survival, The Archaeology of the Future - investigating how materials, objects and ideas move through time: wha tremains,what transforms, and what continues to shape our cultural landscape.
PAST
Memory, focuses on reflection around memory, symbolic value, and the historical use of materials, with particular attention to stone.
Stone is approached as a carrier of memory: architectural, cultural, ritual, and collective. Its use across history reflects how societies have attempted to store meaning, authority, belief, and continuity.
Memory is understood here as an active inheritance. What is remembered materially is never neutral. It is the result of choices, hierarchies, and values sedimented over time.
This phase establishes the material and symbolic ground upon which the following moments are built.
Stone is approached as a carrier of memory: architectural, cultural, ritual, and collective. Its use across history reflects how societies have attempted to store meaning, authority, belief, and continuity.
Memory is understood here as an active inheritance. What is remembered materially is never neutral. It is the result of choices, hierarchies, and values sedimented over time.
This phase establishes the material and symbolic ground upon which the following moments are built.
PRESENT
Survival is the base research for 7+1 Acts of Survival.
Everything that exists — objects, materials, ideas, practices, and ourselves — remains present because it has survived. Survival determines what enters our lives and what recedes from them.
The project is structured around three guiding questions:
Together, these questions provide a framework for understanding the material, social, cultural, and environmental forces that enable persistence over time.
Everything that exists — objects, materials, ideas, practices, and ourselves — remains present because it has survived. Survival determines what enters our lives and what recedes from them.
The project is structured around three guiding questions:
- What has survived?
- How did it survive?
- Why did it survive?
Together, these questions provide a framework for understanding the material, social, cultural, and environmental forces that enable persistence over time.
LOGY
OF THE
FUTURE
FUTURE
The Archaeology of the Future, extends the investigation forward in time. It imagines the survival artefacts of a society that does not yet exist and considers how meaning is carried across generations.
This phase asks:
It proposes an archaeology concerned with potential inheritance and future legibility. Works developed within Survival may reappear, transform, or generate new iterations within this future-oriented phase.
This phase asks:
- What will survive us?
- What traces will remain meaningful?
- What objects, materials, or gestures will be legible as evidence of our time?
It proposes an archaeology concerned with potential inheritance and future legibility. Works developed within Survival may reappear, transform, or generate new iterations within this future-oriented phase.