Archive
The archive is an integral part of The Weigh-In and develops through every encounter.
Each encounter begins with a simple invitation: to imagine a birth and the first moment we are weighed. From there, memories, family stories and personal reflections begin to unfold. Some participants know their birth weight by heart; others discover that what seems like a simple measurement carries unexpected emotions, associations or meanings.
Rather than documenting fixed facts, the archive explores how people remember, reinterpret and make sense of one of the earliest recorded moments of their lives. Each contribution expands the research, revealing how a single measurement can resonate across a lifetime.
As the archive grows, it becomes more than a collection of stories. It functions as an active artistic resource from which new installations, participatory encounters, writings and other artistic works emerge. In this way, the archive not only preserves experiences but also generates new questions, conversations and forms of artistic inquiry.
The archive has no final form. It remains open, continuously shaped by the people who contribute to it and by the encounters that continue to expand the research into measurement, identity and the ways numbers influence how we understand ourselves and one another.