‘network’

… curatorial and museological practices, and the historiography of Cold War art scenes and networks. The conference takes Artpool’s 1979 concept of an “ Active Archive ” as a starting point to explore its contemporary interpretations and applications, and its similarities with and differences from other artist archives. As Artpool’s founder György Galántai puts it, an active archive “generates the very material to be archived” through calls for participation, cooperation, …

… “clients” of the Archive and the Bureau posed a lot of questions about forms of self-organization, network-building, maintaining international contacts, the shape of mutual relationships, methods of communication, the extent to which they interfered in reality, the willingness and capacity to enact social change. Some wrote manifestos. They considered expanding the possibilities of the language they used and the meanings of individual words. They attempted to create new alphabets. They created …

… and now dispersed across collections in Scotland, Ireland and Hungary.   Working as a 'network of care,' the research group is developing an open-source web platform for The Attic Archive designed and developed by sound and infrastructure artist  Vo Ezn.  This is the second workshop in a series of three, and you can learn more about the first event in Dundee  here . We aim to launch the web platform publicly in 2025, where we will publish work and documentation …