The project, financed by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities—project no. 21 H 11 011 80 (module 2.1, 2012-2014)—set itself the task of a critical and theoretical reflection on the concept of the archive, including the issues of memory, history, representation, and utopia at the crossroads of various methodologies: the starting point here were the literary and cultural sciences, introduced into a creative dialogue with these disciplines and spaces for reflection, where archive studies have been clearly present in recent years and have started to develop dynamically. The project initiated a cooperation between researchers and artists representing various fields and specializations within the humanities, and dealing with archival issues in the broadest sense of the term. In the context of critical reflection on the past, “archive” is not only one of the most important concepts for theory and practice (artistic and research), but also the key to the metareflection of various disciplines, to rethink the critical history of literature, art, or historical reflection in general within a scientific institution.