Save the date I Online workshop: "A participatory impulse: How to archive relationships".
The meeting, hosted by Mick Wilson, Director of Doctoral Studies and Professor of Art at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, will take place on Wednesday, 11 September, from 12 to 13.30hrs, and registration is required.
For several decades, the archive has been a central figure and concern for both the organisational infrastructure and the practical production of contemporary art. Indeed, it could be said that the ‘archive’ has become both the facilitating and limiting horizon of many cultural practices.
It often seems that all forms of collecting, memory work and all forms of programming can only be conceived by appealing to the figure of the ‘archive’. Even the desire for an alternative cultural politics, including decolonised and counter-hegemonic practices, seems to depend on alternative archival models.
Here are some examples:
https://www.decolonisingthearchive.com/
https://dpe.tools/resources/instituting-from-archives)
In this online workshop: “A participatory impulse? How to archive relationships”.”, Mick Wilson, Director of Doctoral Studies and Professor of Art at HDK-Valand at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), which will take place on Wednesday, 11 September from 12 to 13.30hrs at English, The reasons for this ascendancy of the archive, the different ways in which it has been experimentally reconstructed and the broader contexts of current archival impulses in contemporary art will be explored.
The session will also explore what might be at stake in translating this archival thinking into specifically «social» and «participatory» art practices. What might it mean for practices that give primacy to some idea of social relation to archive those relations? What can it mean to exercise custodianship of relationships? How might this be framed as a meaningful task, and what issues might be at stake?
Wilson is Visiting Professor at the Latvian Academy of Art (since 2021) and Faculty-at-large for the Master of Arts Curatorial Practice, SVA, New York (since 2014).He is co-investigator on several research projects, including ‘The Museum of the Commons at L'Internationale’ (EACEA, 2023-2027); ‘The Fountain: An art-technological-social drama’ (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development, 2020-2024); or ‘The Research Dissensus Glossary’ (University of Gothenburg, 2024-2028), and has been involved in editing several publications.
This session is part of the European project ‘Art Living Lab for Sustainability’The aim of the project - promoted by Concomitentes, De Nieuwe Opdrachtgevers, La Société des Nouveaux Commanditaires - is to respond to three open participation processes in Spain, France and Belgium through an artistic solution committed to the surroundings, nature and the environment.
We invite you to participate in this one and a half hour online workshop, which you will be able to attend by filling in the following form this form.
More information on the European project website: www.artlivinglab.eu.
