We (Maggessi/Morusiewicz) are a duo of researching artists and curators, working with found-footage, audiovisual material, digital/analogue printing techniques, and textile installations. Situating our practice within queer, critical-archive, and post-/anti-/decolonial discourses, we employ (peri-)academic theory to explore spaces of in-betweenness, ambiguity, and pleasure through collaging films, sounds, and images. Our practice encompasses various forms and formats. As we state in our biographical note, we research, curate, perform, film, and make artworks, all of which we do together. We often find it tricky to pinpoint what exactly we do while we do it. Not that this is a problem; this is what characterizes our collaborative work. We are equally preoccupied with the conception of an artwork, as we are with its production, installation, and mediation, which is sometimes an overwhelming feat that requires of us considerable time and focus.

Our collaborative practice stems from our mutual interests in (expanded) film, critical archive studies, and queer historiography. While our backgrounds are quite different, we meet in the common desire of creating spaces for encounters between fictional and real-life characters, human and non-human. These characters find themselves often experiencing joyful moments, as well as times of emotional turmoil. What unites them is our ambiguous relationship towards them: a kinship often based in nostalgia along with a problematic aftertaste, duo to the context in which they exist(ed). We are interested in the potential of bringing together different cultural materials (films, images, objects, sounds, text) in a way that could be generative of knowledge and affect.