Slice of a Recent Past
For this call, we’re opening up slices of tactileBOSCH’s past, not as a fixed record, but as something alive. Something partial, sifted through, shifting, and open. We invite you to spend time with it in your own way, and to return to this page as it grows. The page becomes a parallel space: a living archive we share as we unearth it from the boxes.
In what ways does the archive exist as a living body, and contrastingly, how does the representation of the body exist as a living archive? Like bodies, archives don’t act just as containers but also digest, expel, and make choices. What gets absorbed and rejected, and who decides? Who is allowed to touch it?
These images carry a strong sense of liveness: grainy, low-resolution, awkwardly framed, captured quickly, amidst mid-action. They also feel intimate. Urgent. A grab at something fleeting. There’s romance here but also grit. They ask questions about how aesthetics shape our understanding of live work: what gets remembered, what gets flattened, what still feels alive.
Themes / Prompts
What gets remembered, what gets lost
The gap between experience and image
The archive as a living body / The living body as archive
Time folding, past meeting present, melting into new pasts
Permission to drift from the source material, and be led by it.
Drawing on hauntological ideas of cultural memory, tB25: Fist Inside the Velvet Glove treats the archive as a living thing, where past experiments continue to shape present and future practice. We’re interested in what these images evoke for you, not simply what they show.
So far, we’ve only scratched the surface. The tB team has been working with just two boxes: mostly printed photographs from the early to mid-2000s, likely taken by founder Kim Fielding, alongside fragments of director Beth’s digital archive (2017 - 2019). What you see here isn’t a complete history. It’s a set of glimpses, atmospheres, gestures, traces of past experiments. Moments where something was happening.
What happens in the collision of practices?
How do bodies move through space, leaning into it, resisting it?
Where do mediums blur, performance slipping into installation, sound into sculpture, documentation becoming practice?
Submission Guidelines
Submission Guidelines
We’re not asking for literal interpretations.
Use these as a way in.
A prompt
A mirror
A misremembering
A place to begin something new
We’re interested in proposals that are exploratory, responsive, and open. Work that tests things out. Work that doesn’t yet know exactly what it is.
