Repertories of (in)discreteness - Curating Radio Free Europe’s archives through artistic means

The Repertories of (in)discreetness project had its starting point in the archive of Radio Free Europe at Open Society Archives in Budapest, Hungary. The project's aim was to question the act and mechanisms of archiving “the Other”, with a focus on the European “East”. The paper discusses the ways in which information was collected, the ways in which Eastern Europe has gained an epistemic body and presents the way in which the historiographic dilemmas were translated through artistic means. By combining old and new media and by using sound, video, and situations as forms of deconstruction and embodiment that render visible the invisible, the exhibition project engaged the visitors in the production of knowledge and the use of informational warfare during the Cold War, as food for thought in connection to the present day mediatic practices.