After the breakup of Yugoslavia, the rapid shift of its fragmented parts into the capitalist periphery led to collective amnesia and institutional neglect, severely affecting social memory and reflection on key cultural and social processes. Physical and discursive archives are crucial for critically examining the development of culture and society. Their use and accessibility are fundamental for researching, reinterpreting, rehistoricizing, and reimagining cultural institutions, art, theory, and social relations.
This is why working with archives is a vital part of ISU’s interdisciplinary practice, creating a space for reflection, continuity, orientation, and collective imagination of various forms of social existence.