De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research*

The archive has played an important role in the history of privacy, or even in the history of history. The archive is private, history is public (...) "Out" of the archive history is produced, but when writing history the utmost care is traditionally placed on producing a seamless account of the archive, even though all archives are fractured and partial. The messy space of the archive is thus sealed off by history. History is then a facade. (Beatriz Colomina, Privacy and Publicity, MIT press, 1996 p.9)