My Head’s Album

Interview with Halim Halim Badawi

Authors

  • Natalia Giglietti Instituto de Investigación en Producción y Enseñanza del Arte Argentino y Latinoamericano. Facultad de Artes Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • Elena Sedán Instituto de Investigación en Producción y Enseñanza del Arte Argentino y Latinoamericano. Facultad de Artes Universidad Nacional de La Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/24691879e046

Keywords:

Archives, contemporary Art, collecting, Latin America, Arkhé

Abstract

In this interview Halim Badawi, founder of the Arkhé Archive, describes how this space began to take shape and what are the conceptual and political criteria that define it. In his generous responses, he highlights the impulse to Latin Americanize the archive, that is, to move beyond the strict borders of Colombia to design it in relation to neighboring countries. Within this framework, it focuses on the recovery of key documents for the rewriting of Latin American art histories, such as those that address the artistic productions of the Andean region and the Queer collection that includes more than fifty thousand pieces. Traveler, marginal, dynamic and clandestine, this is how Badawi understands Arkhé and brings us closer to his way of questioning the official nature of the archive and collecting.

References

Badawi, H. (2019). Historia urgente del arte en Colombia. Crítica.

Borges, JL. (1952). El idioma analítico de John Wilkins. En Otras inquisiciones. Obras completas II. Emecé.

Published

2022-12-27

How to Cite

Giglietti , N. ., & Sedán, E. . (2022). My Head’s Album: Interview with Halim Halim Badawi. Nimio, (9), e046. https://doi.org/10.24215/24691879e046

Issue

Section

Dialogues