The Season of Living Archives: a Generative Provenance

The contribution, starting from consolidated archival concepts, introduces the theme of living archives by evaluating their potential political role and the impact they can have on cultural and social dynamics. It also evaluates what the tools for contextualized use of these resources could be, also in light of a cross-action of the principles of provenance and relevance

The living archive is generative.

The living archive is performative
The living archive must be a specific, culturally situated place.
The living archive emerges as an activist strategy that (re)constructs reality through a cross section of information, community organizing, and radical history.ISSN: 2038-1026 online Open access article licensed under CC-BY DOI: 10.36253/jlis.it-597 The living archive is both a method for interrogating the past and "an irreducible experience of the future." The living archive is itself a politics.
The living archive is not neutral.
The living archive enables political pluralism and strives for emancipation.
The living archive is an alternative formulation that presents a threat to those who seek to consolidate power and oppress others.In the living archive, everyone is an archivist.
The living archive relies on funding models that don't compromise its core values.
The living archive is social and takes up space in the world.The living archive creates community and aspires to be a nexus between communities.In the living archive conceptions of permanence and preservation are determined by community ideas and intentions.
The living archive strives to preserve and understand rather than collapse difference.
The living archive changes how we think about relationships between the past, present, and future and makes space for non-human perspectives (Almeida e Hoyer 2019, 29).