The Attic Archive Alphabetic Script Map 2021-2024

This digital image (exhibited as part of History/Reality: An Attic Archive Installation, Matthew Gallery, April 2024) was created in 2024 from a drawing that annotates a series of oral history interviews Bodor conducted in May-June 2021 at the Scottish Oral History Centre, Edinburgh, with haha, who emerged as the latest character of the Attic Archive, an old man in his 70s on 1.1.2020. The interviews explored the entire history of the Attic Archive from 1975 as told from today's perspective by haha. Bodor used a type-written ‘alphabetical script’ with input from the artist as a guide to avoiding chronological storytelling. The drawing on top of the type-written script records the conversations as they emerge, mapping the connection between people and artworks created across decades by different characters. The Map became a key navigation tool helping research across archives in the new research network project 'Curating The Digital Attic Archive' (2024-2025), funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network Award. The digital image has been exhibited at the DJCAD Research EXPO 2024 and later as part of History/Reality: An Attic Archive Installation.