GRAPHIC ARCHIVE - GATHERINGS VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE
Artwork by Andriana Contreras Correal
EVENT DESCRIPTION
YOUR INVITATION TO PARTAKE AND PARTICIPATE
Host: Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Performance
Co-organizers: Jill Carter, Lisa Aikman, Jenn Cole, & Stephen Johnson
Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Performance invites all CATR delegates to join the Gatherings research-team in an ONLINE Long-Table Gathering, adhering to Lois Weaver’s Long-Table protocols. This Event will take place in on August 1, 2020. Watch this space for further details.
Date and Time: Saturday, August 1, 2020, from 12noon to 3pm EDT
Place: Zoom; we will be looking to make full use of this platform, approximating a Long Table event in every way possible. We will be engaging Drawing Change to document this event.
All CATR members are invited to meet within a specially curated, online salon within which to engage in a collaborative discussion around gathering, archiving and accessing the stuff (digital, printed, material) out of which Performance Histories are woven. We believe that, as culture-workers who build, maintain or contribute to performance history archives or who utilize these archives in your research, you share our questions. And we hope that you share our conviction that a collaborative exploration of these questions is a relevant and timely exercise that will greatly inform our research-processes and the works produced therefrom. Adapted from Lois Weaver’s Long Table practice, this salon opens space for questions around archival practices of collection, curation, display, and archival accessibility.
Questions to be explored at the Long Table include the following:
(a) What do our graduate students, colleagues and fellow researchers appreciate about the archives they have visited?
(b) What improvements/alterations to the archives they have visited would better facilitate their work?
(c) What obstacles/irritants might they have encountered that set back their work or inspired their distrust of the archive?
(d) What are the ethical questions around the practices of collection, curation and display that inform their approach to, confidence in, and use of the archives that inform their work?
All conference attendees are invited to participate in this session. We ask that all register to receive their link to the session and a guide to the protocols we will be following. These protocols have been adapted (for online gathering) from Lois Weaver’s Long Table Protocols. The session will be recorded and made available for asynchronous viewing throughout the conference.
A guide to the Protocols for the LongTable can be found HERE.
Inquiries about this event may be directed to Jill Carter at jill.carter@utoronto.ca
