The Revenant Archives

The Revenant Archives is an institution concerned with the visual and material culture of the paranormal. Consisting of artifacts, documents, ephemera, works on paper, and reconstructions, it uses folkloristic, parapsychological, and scientific means to offer new interpretations of ambiguous situations and to investigate the conflicts and byproducts of belief in society.

Through a fusion of historical methodologies and contemporary art practices, the Archive attempts to neutrally explore the blurring of boundaries between past and present, truth and fiction, and physical and spiritual reality. As Chief Archivist, Kristen Gallerneaux has presented a number of traveling exhibits, public lectures, and maintains the holdings of the physical archive space.

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Kristen Gallerneaux was raised in a Spiritualist household near Paincourt, Ontario - a French Canadian village named after its 18th Century bread shortage. Upon relocation to Detroit in 2006, she began her work with the Revenant Archives, a project dedicated to the exploration and history of the supernatural.

After completing an MFA in Printmaking at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, Kristen began her tenure as a MA Folklore student at the University of Oregon in 2009. Her current areas of research include: paranormal societies, idiosyncratic museums, cultural processes that emerge out of urban decay, and "visual legendry." She believes these explorations will be a lifelong project.

>>>The Revenant Archives are CURRENTLY ON VIEW at The Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts in Eugene, OR until May 28th <<<

http://www.divanow.org

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This is an ongoing film series about the material and artistic byproducts of a supposedly declined city, and how the creative thinkers who traverse its everyday challenges have learned to harness this energy to create seemingly incongruous works of a celebratory or humorous nature.

Young artists and curators working with and influenced by the social fabric of the city have learned to embrace Detroit’s potentially negative facets, and I believe their work is so enmeshed with the city’s fabric that it is the only place their current modes of artistic research and production could occur. In short, Detroit seems to produce strong artists who take risks, both physically and socially.

This film is a labor of love, an outcome of my fieldwork as an artist and a folklorist. It will continue to grow and mutate with no fixed idea for its final outcome. Two additional segments are in the editing process, and I hope to continue to fly home to film other segments as my meager budget allows.

Future installments will include the work of Stephen Schudlich, Alana Bartol-Vince, and Nathan Vince.


I will be conducting special “after hours”  tours of The Revenant Archives at the Downtown Initiative for the Visual  Arts Tuesday, April 27th (that’s tomorrow) at  6pm.
RSVP unnecessary, but appreciated, so I know when to start the tour:  kgallerneaux@yahoo.com 
Gallery information at: http://divanow.org

I will be conducting special “after hours” tours of The Revenant Archives at the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts Tuesday, April 27th (that’s tomorrow) at 6pm.

RSVP unnecessary, but appreciated, so I know when to start the tour: kgallerneaux@yahoo.com 

Gallery information at: http://divanow.org

TOURS OF THE ARCHIVES at DIVA

This Thursday, April 22, beginning at Noon. If you can’t make it this week, and would like a personal tour, please email me to set up a time and day.

Close views of “Tools and Devices of Mediumship” displays, Part One

Kristen Gallerneaux will be making the following visual and paper presentation at the Western States Folklore Society meeting this Saturday, April 17th, at 1pm:

From the Academy to the Street: Visual Legendry in Psychical Research Societies and Vernacular Ghost Hunting Groups

A link to the paper for those unable to attend: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQfnacS2FmEiZGNjbTIzd2JfMmY4ZjJ3cmhr&hl=en

Or.. explore the Western States Folklore website for further information:

http://www.westernfolklore.org/assets/2010%20Preliminary%20Program.pdf