This free online events series considers the role of archives in artistic practice and institution-making.

Archives are holders of memory, depositories of individual and collective narratives, offering traces of the past that remain mostly unseen in boxes, folders, hard drives and servers. How do artists disrupt and challenge the traditional understanding of archives as sites of classification and power? How do formal and informal archives support the construction of history, with facts, fictions, institutional and personal narratives? Can archives reveal or trouble the structures of an institution?

Elisions: A four-part screening programme curated by Adam Pugh
Weekly Wednesdays from 21 April
Week 1: The gaze reclaimed
Week 2: Archive as testimony
Week 3: A distributed archive
Week 4: The hall of mirrors
Read programme notes

Aural and Digital Archives with Andrius Arutiunian
Wednesday 19 May 18.30

The Archive as fuel: Reflections on the use of archives for cultural institutions
Postponed, date tba