© Laurus Edelbacher
Meta Archives
Festival of independent art spaces in Vienna May 29 – 31, 2026
Exhibition Details:
Meta Archives explores the archive as a living and relational system. It engages with memory, data, and institutional knowledge, reflecting on how materials, infrastructures, and social relations construct histories. Archiv der Archivierung visualizes the history of Fabrikraum, revealing the encounters, intersections, and influences among many cultural agents within Vienna’s independent art scene. It reconsiders the archive as a non-hierarchical structure, suggesting that narratives shaped by independent spaces stand alongside those of large institutions to form a more complete image. Erinnerung der Stadtbäume extends this reflection toward urban ecology. It approaches fallen tree branches as material archives of climate and urban transformation by processing data from the Baumkataster Stadt Wien and GeoSphere Austria. The project aims to reclaim their agency by transforming this data into poetic voices that express environmental and weather-related changes as a local, embodied history.
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