Adjusting Margins ~ Installation by Paul Andrew and Joanna Kambourian at Enter Outer Space 2022
Arts-based community archives hold significant value by empowering communities, fostering social cohesion and identity, redressing historical omissions, and promoting individual well-being and education.
ARIs work collectively to adjust the lived and imagined margins of society by supporting artistic and political expression and mobilizing subcultural installations, collaborations and movements. This installation draws from examples of SEQ ARIs 1980 to 2022 and explores potential for installations and posters as types of community archives.
ARI-based community archives provide a platform for marginalized or underrepresented groups to document and share their own history and experiences, challenging and correcting incomplete or biased dominant historical narratives. This control over their own stories is a form of social action and political resistance against erasure, symbolic annihilation and loss of collective memory.
In this artwork we were motivated by author Kate Eichhorn’s assertion that xerography, xerox art and photocopy art democratized print culture by making it convenient and affordable for renegade publishers, zinesters, artists, punks, anarchists, queers, feminists, street activists, and others to publish their work and to get their messages out on the street.
See;
Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century Hardcover – Picture Book, 19 February 2016 by Kate Eichhorn (Author).
