ARTISTS’ ARCHIVES: DOCUMENTS AND DOMICILES OF ARTISTIC PRACTICES

08/11/2024, 9.30 – 13.00
VALIE EXPORT Center Linz

In the field of contemporary art, modes of artistic production and archival processes overlap. More and more artists are creating archives of their own working processes. The workshop seeks to pursue a discussion on the histories and practices of artists’ archives. The investigation engages with the manifold aesthetic, epistemic, and affective relationships that evolve from non-institutional practices of archiving.

Bringing together curators Julia Heunemann, Franziska Schmidt, Darko Šimicic, Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher, the workshop inititiates a discussion on curatorial practices and artists’ archives.

Program

09.30 am: Welcome and Introduction

09.40 – 10.20 am: Darko Šimicic
Archive as a Museum. The Case of Tomislav Gotovac

10.20 – 11.00 am: Julia Heunemann
Mail Art. Transgression as Archival Practice

11.00 – 11.30 am: Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.15 am: Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher
Zofia Kulik’s Archiving as Tool or Artwork

12.15 – 13.00 pm: Franziska Schmidt
“As a group, we felt bold and special.” – The Archiving of Feminist Artistic Practicies by Gabriele Stötzer and the Erfurt Women Artists' Group

This workshop was organized in cooperation with the research network “Kulturtechniken des Sammelns” at the University of Erfurt.