Artistic historiography and the making of Philosophical Archaeology Space 2009–2019

This visual essay unfolds my research on philosophical archaeology by means of artistic practice, showing how philosophical archaeology—a method of historical inquiry that essentially embodies one’s relation to history and historiographic research—is conceived and carried out as an artistic modus operandi, as an artistic historiography. Thus, at the core of this research lies a broad question: How can artists historicize? The following, being solely a special case, attempts an answer—it exhibits a research space (titled Philosophical Archaeology Space 2009–2019) that was constituted as, and by, philosophical archaeology in my own artistic practice of the years 2009 and 2019. Finally, this research reflects on philosophical archaeology’s potential (as artistic modus operandi, as “Ar[t]chaeology”) to distend the discourse of history and historiography.