What do we mean, when we say that this is not an archive?
We mean that this is not an archive, as you might choose to define it. We mean that this is not an archive, as defined by the parameters of what an archive is.
Andrea Fraser
Rather, this online space is a common pool of knowledge(s) and research(es) - a resource. It is a collection of materials - documents - of spaces, interactions, thoughts and questions, all raised by our stepping into physical spaces defined as archival - the Archive - the Archivium - the house of knowledge, the political house, the nomological house, and within that, the Archon - the guardian, the gatekeeper, the curator of knowledge.
This website is a form that was built on our interactions with the notion of archive as an unknown space. This website will become an unknown space, too, to anyone who visits it.
This resource is public in as much as it exists as a website, online, in what is instantly regarded as a public domain. We have no thoughts for our users, except that this website will have users. Sometimes, it might not. It might exist as a dead space, activated only when a chance encounter activates the information contained within this digital realm.
Either way, how this website is read depends on the user.
This is a private resource, in that it has been compiled by a number of individuals, for a specific research purpose. The format of the website, was the best possible format within which to maintain the integrity of multiplicity in a project guided by a notion that is manifold, complex and multiplicitous by nature. After all, an archive is an aggregation of individual materials, just as our group is an aggregation of individual people. We can never stand to represent one thing. We represent many things, in one space.
If you think this might be the parameters within which one might call this place an archive, call it what you will. There is no gatekeeper in here, but you.