During their residency, MELT will develop Meltry entry “A – Archiving the Unstable”, and explore how processes of melting set in motion events that cannot be measured by single timestamps. Roughly 640,000 years ago Yellowstone National park was created by an eruption from the supervolcano the Yellowstone Caldera. The eruption spat out direct, magma, and other materials, and the magma continues to shift and move under the surface, altering the landscape in the park to this day. Exploring the political and aesthetic changing states of water that includes melting, freezing, sublimation, deposition, condensation, and vaporisation, MELT will pose questions about things that are transitional, ongoing, or tend to disappear. Through this material-led exploration, MELT ask: How can archives account for the unstable or unperceivable by human senses? What might it mean to understand history through temperature rather than through time? How are the practices of archiving influenced by climate change and how might they account for these emerging realities?

These questions resonate well with Flusser’s critical statement about the understanding of history:

During the residency MELT will also explore solutions and actions that refuse stability and progression to produce different relations to categorical archiving and historicizing practices.