Introduction to an Index, Text commission for Radical History Review’s 25th anniversary special issue

Introduction to an Index is a visual essay that presents a chronology of the project and ongoing research of over a decade. In this work, each of the extracts from, reframings of, and comments on documents from the archive, represents particular topics undertaken in the process of archival research and formation. Torn text fragments juxtaposed with official records, primary declassified documents, drawings, and reports, highlight the slippage between different registers of language contained within our archive, including systemic/individual, public/private, and political/poetic.