MEDIA, MEMORY, HISTORY - CURATORIAL LECTURE SERIES

On six evenings, curators will, on the basis of their own practice and/or research, speak about how the culture of memory and historicity can make a fundamental contribution to supporting critical strategies in the arts. In the arts, there is at present a striking interest in the past, in history and historical events. Remakes and re-enactments, the use of found footage in audiovisual work and re-photography, these are all typical of contemporary practice in the visual arts. Groundbreaking exhibitions are reconstructed. In addition, historiographic items (archives, documents and witness accounts) are gaining increasing importance in the work of both artists and curators. The adaptation and reinterpretation of historical source material is often now simply a primary subject. The six-part series Media, Memory, History attempts to take stock of the current situation.

This event is part of OPEN ARCHIVE #2 - REFLECTIONS ON CONTEMPORARY ART, MEDIA CULTURE AND ARCHIVING

Subevents

• Steven ten Thije and Galit Eilat - Living Archive: Exhibiting the Van Abbemuseum Archive
• Charles Merewether - Archival Malpractice
• François Niney - Retour d'images et reprise de vue
• Dorothee Richter - Curating Degree Zero Archive
• Mihnea Mircan - A Sum of Corrections
• Matthias Michalka - Exhibiting the Archive