Refusal to Remain Visible

Written By aida pakzad

Status: Current Investigation

Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency
August 2026

 

Overview

Refusal to Remain Visible is the current stage of The Coveration of Eve. Developed during the Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency, this investigation asks what happens when visibility is no longer treated as an obligation, but as a choice, and leaving and not being seen as a refusal.

 

Current Investigation

Rather than producing finished works from a fixed plan, this residency becomes a temporary research site. Images, archival fragments, materials, conversations, and experiments are gathered as part of an evolving counter-archive around absence, withdrawal, and the right not to remain visible.

 

Current Focus

  • Archives of absence

  • Leaving the frame

  • Selective visibility

  • Counter-archive building

  • Material experiments

 

Current Outputs (in progress)

  • Research notebook

  • Material collection

  • Archive investigation

  • Collage studies

  • Installation experiments

 

Related Manifestations

  • Eve Did Not Fall

  • Outside Without Moving

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