Contemporary Interdisciplinary Research(CIR) is an art archive, library, and a studio run by Jihyun Won. Challenging established concepts of the archive and art space, CIR sustains a unique experimental environment for critical inquiry, artistic research, and public dialogue. The collection at CIR is artist–run, meaning that living artists are donating, deciding what is valuable and generating language for inventorying their work on their own terms. CIR is not affiliated with a larger institution and as such, it maintains an archive free from limitations associated with prevailing, traditional structures.