Wikimedia Commons; Excerpt from DYN; Collage M. Hallensleben. Paalen’s Atelier in his House in St. Angel (Anahuac, Mexico City).
Dr. Markus Hallensleben is set to begin building a decolonial Wolfgang Paalen online archive and digital edition through Text Encoding Consortium (TEI).
Dr. Hallensleben was awarded a 2025-26 UBC Digital Scholarship Incubator Grant for his work on an interdisciplinary and international collaborative project about the Austrian-German-Mexican avant-garde artist Paalen (1905-59) and his collection of Indigenous belongings.
The goal of the project is to develop the practical-strategic framework for a new, Indigenous storywork-based, decolonial approach to digitally archiving, editing, and critically analyzing primary sources in European Cultural Studies.
More information on this project can be found here.
