The Metropolitan Complex

Red Archive

Part personal anthology, part resource centre the red archive includes materials from individual artists, curators and institutions that inform, complicate and represent the relationship artistic practice and political action. As a system to accumulate matter that both informs and represents a variety of strategies in artistic practice, Red Archive is a place to think about art as a political prospect. Launched May Day 2004, and displayed at Project, Dublin (1 May 2004 - 30 June 2004).

Red Archive, Project, Dublin 2004

Art and Politics

Like other social practices, art involves relationships between people. Artists are part of a community of individuals, bureaucracies, networks, and institutions that together form collective moments of experimentation, analysis and exchange. While many artists engage in work that is overtly political or activist, it is possible to recognise subtle shifts in perception that arise through projects that are perhaps less dogmatic and more analytical and open in the threshold between art and politics, and the categories of artist, activist, audience, institution, and community.

(Sarah Pierce, Red Archive, open call 2004.)

Red Archive, Project, Dublin 2004

Group meeting, Red Archive, Project, Dublin 2004

Items in Red Archive

RA/001

BOOK / Executive Business Guide to China / Japan Airlines edited by Frederic M. Kaplan and Mary Lou Teel, 1979 paperback.

RA/002

BOOK / The New Face of Terrorism / edited by Nadine Gurr and Benjamin Cole, 2002 paperback.

RA/003

BOOK / Benefits and Burdens: A report on the West Bank and Gaza Strip Economies since 1967 / by Brian Van Arkadie, 1977 paperback.

RA/004

BOOK / Remaking History / edited by Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani, Dia Art Foundation, 1989 paperback.

RA/005
Abdoulaye Ba

ZINE / Production / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/006
Adam Szymczyk

ZINE / Three hard pieces / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/007
Alexis Vaillant

ZINE / Le Pinciple Dracula, Une lame de fond dans les sous-sols de l'exposition / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/008
Amel Ibrahimovic

BOOK / u.m.a.s.p. / by Amel Ibrahimovic, a NIFCA publication 2002 paperback.

RA/009
Annie Fletcher

BOOK / Now What? Dreaming a better world in six parts / BAK, 2003 paperback.

RA/010
Arteleku

CATALOGUE / Colisiones / taller y exposición dirigidos por Corrine Diserens y Francis Gomila, Arteleku workshop 1995 paperback.

RA/011
Asier Pérez González

ZINE / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/012
Carles Guerra

ZINE / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/013
Carlos Amorales, Alicia Famis, Meschac Gaba, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Erik van Lieshout

BROADSHEET / We Are the World / Dutch Pavilion, Venice 2003, 6 folded posters.

RA/014
Charles Esche

ZINE / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/015
Christoph Keller

ZINE / The Unbelievable Story of Doc Supra / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/016
Christos Papoulias

ZINE / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/017
Clementine Deliss

BOOK / TEMPOLABOR A libertine library? / Metronome No. 3, Basel 1998 paperback.

RA/018
Clemetine Deliss

ZINE / The Stateless Micro-Government or the supra-doc system / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/019
Felix Janssens

ZINE / Are we looking for Authenticity? / Alexis Vaillantsupra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/020
Franck Lacade

ZINE / Communaué fictionnelle / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/021
Gardar Eide Einarsson

ZINE / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/022
Geert Lovink

ZINE / A collection of unresolved issues, Notes (Dec 2002 – Jan 2003) / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/023
Gerard Byrne

BOOK / Taliban / by Ahmed Rashid 2000 paperback.

RA/024
Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

BOOK / Why is art the bare nerve of society? / Perché?, 2000 paperback.

RA/025
Haegue Yang

ZINE / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/026
Hirich Sachs

ZINE / First Flush / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/027
Ibon Aranberri

ZINE / Etxe hotz eta hezean / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/028
Ina Bloom

ZINE / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/029
Issa Samb

ZINE / Autobiographie du rien / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/030
Jérôme Sans

BOOK / What is the Artist's Role Today? / Multiple texts assembled by multiple authors / Palais De Tokyo 2003 paperback.

RA/031
Karl Holmquist

ZINE / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/032
Leire Vergara

ZINE / L'mite vertical / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/033
Lisette Smits

ZINE / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/034
Manuel J. Borja-Villel

ZINE / Museo, memoria e identidad / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/035
Maurizio Lazzarato

ZINE / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/036
Pavel Büchler

BOOK / Mark Angels / by Pavel Büchler 1997, paperback.

RA/037
Peio Aguirre

ZINE / Esta noche me siento como un cazador timido / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/038
Phyllis Kiehl

ZINE / Excerpt from the novel Mount Fat / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/039

BOOK / The Fall of Japan / by William Craig, 1967 hard cover.

RA/040
Santi Eraso

ZINE / Fuera de lugar / supra.doc / The Timing of Transaction, Summit of Donostia, organised by Clementine Deliss, Franck Lacade – Consonni, Santi Eraso – Arteleku, and Hinrich Sachs, 2003 staple bound.

RA/041
Sarah Pierce

BOOK / The Society of the Spectacle / by Guy Debord 1967 paperback.

RA/042
Sarah Pierce

BOOK / Soft Subversions / by Felix Guattari, semiotexte 1996 paperback.

RA/043
Ultra-red

CD / ¡Amnistia! / by Ultra-red 2003, Comatonse recordings, Mayday 2000 NYC.

RA/044
Ultra-red

CD / Second Nature / by Ultra-red 1999, Mille Plateaux, Griffith Park Los Angeles.

RA/045

Ultra-red

BOX SET CDs / The Debt / by Ultra-red 2004, Breaking Ground, Ballymun, Dublin.

RA/046
www.rollen.com

ZINE / Publikation 46 / by Karatina Kvarnsjö, 2002 staple bound.

RA/047
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ZINE / oktokyo, Publikasjon 63 / by Lina Viste Grøni, Ditte Lyngkær, Johan Sæter, 2002 staple bound.

RA/048
www.rollen.com

ZINE / SSEF, Publikation 75 / by Yvla Westerlund, 2002 staple bound.

RA/049
Maria Pask

Manual / THE KIT Emmanuelle's annual manual / by Maria Pask 2002 staple bound.

RA/050
VPRO

BER MAT / Vandaag live, Morgen Online / from TENT, Rotterdam 2004.

RA/051
Hector Garcia

PHOTOGRAPH / Frida Khalo at home in Mexico / by her father / date unknown.