Installation: Nothing Is Connected to Everything
Nothing Is Connected to Everything
2026, 5-channel video installation
This work reflects on the archive as a system of fragile relations, where connections appear, break, and reassemble. Queer lives often persist within such systems as fragments, traces, or silences. Drawing on relational thinking associated with Donna Haraway and Saidiya Hartman, the work approaches these gaps not simply as losses but as charged spaces, where what cannot be fully recorded or named continues to circulate as relation, gesture, and possibility.
The work was developed within the VBKÖ Member’s Archive Residency Program, during the renovation and reopening of the archive at Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs. In dialogue with the archive’s documents, images, objects, and institutional structures, the residency brought together seven artists engaging its materials as well as its silences and violences.
Within this framework, a research group with Vinko Nino Jaeger and Eszter Katalin focused on queer absences and the question: where are the queer subjects in the archive? This inquiry informs a visual, spatial, and material language across film, video, sound, and installation, presented in the exhibition Polyphonic Archive, Entangled Voices alongside works by Pêdra Costa, Zoe Gudović, Tahereh Nourani, Christina Werner, and others.
Working through archival gaps, fragments, and connections, the piece reflects on queer networks that persist beyond the limits of the record, and on how histories move through absence, relation, and the incomplete structures of institutional memory.
Nothing Is Connected to Everything (Teaser), 2026