This workshop is intended to be broader than just family archives. We will discuss informal archives that are little or not systematised, neglected, abandoned, found by chance or obsessively preserved outside an institutional framework (by artists?). We can think of archives as things that circulate or exist static in a particular place. We can also think of archives as places where things disappear or are hidden—the archive as a place of forgetting.

Daniel Barroca studied Fine Arts at ESAD-CR, Ar.Co and Ashkal Alwan. He was a resident at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and The Drawing Centre. She completed her MA in Anthropology at the University of Florida on a Fulbright scholarship. With Catarina Laranjeiro, he made the documentary Fogo no Lodo (Kintop production, supported by ICA), which is about war and religion in a village in southern Guinea-Bissau. He is currently studying for a PhD in Anthropology at the ICS on an FCT scholarship.