This article considers archival performances rather than archives as places or repositories. This is done by expanding reflections on affect and by framing three specific archival performance practices: re-enactment, affective doubling, and surrogacy. The topic of The New Human is approached through the complex materiality of contemporary memory practices. This is the scholarly publication associated with the presentation of the same name given at The New Human Symposium co-curated by Medea of Malmö University and Moderna Museet Malmö in August 2016.