We, The Public: An Archive of Memories and Artifacts of Struggles 

( N o s t a l g i a    d e    l o    p ú b l i c o )

We, The Public will be an archive built from the bottom-up that includes the material artifacts and social memories surrounding the cultural politics of state-run entities and their privatization in Colombia. I will collect photographs, pamphlets, emblems, merchandise, videos, textiles, technological devices, and myriad official and unofficial vestiges. In doing so, I will be able to show how public institutions were not only forged by state legislation and loans from financial institutions, but by the daily activity of concrete individuals.