Musyawarah Arsip

Musyawarah Arsip (or MUAR, officially registered as Perkumpulan Inisiatif Musyawarah Arsip) is an independent platform initiated from Makassar, South Sulawesi in 2024. The initiative works and deliberates to identify, store, care for, activate and present archives to the public in various programs and media. Because archives are dynamic spaces for knowledge production and development, MUAR uses a cross-knowledge, cross-experience and cross-skill approach to managing and presenting archives through artistic strategies that are driven by collaboration by various parties, including archivists, historians, researchers, artists, and cultural activists from various time and geographical zones. MUAR focuses on neglected and endangered archives that are closely related to social, political and cultural events (in the broadest sense). These include, but are not limited to: family archives of various ethnic diasporas (including the diaspora of various ethnic groups located in South Sulawesi and the diaspora of ethnic groups from South Sulawesi located elsewhere); archives of leadership (especially women’s leadership); archive of social movement; archives of mountains and islands; archives of intellectual works; archives of climate change; archives of architecture, spaces and landscapes; archives of sporting events; archives of crops; and archives of art and cultural practices.