As Autumn Turns to Winter – in Search of the Archive Without an Address

This paper reflects upon absences in the institutional archive and considers the problems associated with the search for non-textual records. Speculating on the potential of the city street, or spaces as such, as sites of collection, this paper aims to perform a displacement of public forms of memorialization, such as the formal archive, the gravestone, or the public monument and argues that institutional forms of memorialization tend to trade the ontological accumulation of imprints, echoes, and trajectories embodied in everyday spaces for both physical and conceptual containment in a form that is subject to hierarchies of meaning to which public space is ultimately accountable.