Archive: In the Making

Who makes and hold the archive? What is not archived, forgotten or overlooked? How does the archive inform action? Organiser of Archive: In the Making, a day of discussions and workshops focusing on artists’ use of archive and memory as material, and mode of production. It brought together a group of artists, curators and thinkers whose work explores the possibilities of these materials to create artworks, generate discourse, invite engagement and disturb dominant narratives about the past. Contributors: Kirsty Ogg (Director New Contemporaries) NayiaYakoumaki (Archive Research Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery), Janna Graham (Head of Public Programmes and Research, Nottingham Contemporary) Kathryn Smith (Artist and Researcher). Ben Cranfield (Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Birkbeck College London) Break-out session lead by artists Barby Asante, Emma Smith and Ruth Beal