The RCA interdisciplinary group consisting of fine arts, humanities, architecture, and communication design, coming together to explore the role of documentation, archive, fiction, voice, identity and imagination, in relation to our own work and relative to the work of other members of the group. A definition of document is ‘to record the details of an event, a process’. A definition of archive is ‘a collection of historical records relating to a place, organization, or family’. Therefore, the archive is almost documenting over time. This temporal location specific quality of research comparison is a focus of this research sub-group. Archives can function as visual references as well, we can look at history within the art and art within the history. We are advocates of the archives and are using fictional methods to foster the public's imagination about what happened, what should not have happened and what might happen in the future This group aims to find the ways in which the true nature of an artist is documented. The documentation of the presence of the artist (whether that be physical , metaphysical or even spiritual) provides the viewer with alternative forms and modes of communication between the artist and viewer, viewer and beyond. Identity is a developed invisible inner world, a whole subterranean world of one's own archive of memory The self-archival of memories, thoughts, feelings and ideas, through the process of writing, sifting and editing, has always connected me with a highly-vocal inner-voice and with a sense of my true-identity. These temporal moments of self-documentation have at one-time-or-another, provided a sense of sanctuary and refuge through the achieving of greater clarity. Fantasy is everything that was not there before, even if impossible. Invention is everything that was not there before, but not exclusively practical and not concerning aesthetics problems. Creativity is everything that was not there before, but achievable in an essential and global way. ​From many individual research projects where nothing seemed to fit, arrives a connection, a linkage, a place where it’s safe to explore and an environment of sharing, spontaneity and imagination. An evolution of the conversations necessary to both shape our research techniques and our relationships as collaborators. The purpose of this research hub is to explore the ways in which artists work in different subjects. The topics discussed include literature, archives, fiction, sound, imagination, and identity. Our discussion every week as we go deeper in different topics to find mutual influence points, the release of content at different points in time has been affecting the creative thinking of artists.

1. The Diaries of Zofia
Stryjeńska
https://culture.pl/en/article/artist-mother-man-the-diaries-of-zofia-stryjenska

2. Gender, Hidden Identity, Artistic-Voice
• My research has been looking at utilising the shared space of the word to restore the feminine principal in
society and as a methodology for challenging binary thinking in knowledge production, between civilisation
and culture, mind and matter, to encompass the Natural world, not merely as a Feminist Principal, but as
‘the real economy’ where the currency of Life is sacred.
• This has led me on a journey of discovering many feminist poets, writers and artists such as Sappho, Sor
Juana, Æmilia Lanyer, Virginia Wolf, Simone De Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Arundhati Roy, and many others
• The shared padlet introduced me to a Polish artist called Zofia Stryjeńska, whom I discovered was one of the
most important art deco artists of the inter-war period.
• Furthermore, in 1911 it was still relatively difficult for women to gain access to male-dominated academic
institutions. Therefore using her brothers documents Zofia pretended to be a man called Tadeusz Grzymała
in order to attend the Munich Academy in Warsaw, and succeeded with her alter identity for a whole year.
• In the archives of the Munich Academy, it says: Tadeusz Grzymała from Kraków passed the entry exams and
was accepted along with 40 other male students.
• As a result, Zofia is regarded a pioneer female who masked her entire identity in order to study, establishing
herself as a revolutionary, dedicated and willing to do just about anything for her art.