Why look back? Contemporary Art & Institutional Memory
- Region: All Regions
- Type: Workshop
- Cost: Free
Call for Workshop Participants
Why look back? Contemporary Art & Institutional Memory
Friday 24 November 2023, 11.00-17.00
Nottingham Contemporary
In-person workshop for registered participants
We invite participants for a workshop exploring the practice, potential and value of working with the histories, archives, and memories of contemporary art institutions.
Why Look Back? will identify, draw together, and critically reflect on a growing field of practice: non-collecting contemporary art institutions working with their pasts to generate new exhibitions, projects, public programmes, and historical narratives and inform present institutional practices We will address the extent to which practices of reflection, retrospection, and re-activation have recovered marginalised histories and confronted connections to regimes of power and violence, and consider the potential of institutional memory as a basis for curatorial innovation, organisational development and public engagement. By bringing together participants working within art institutions and those engaging with institutional memory through research and curatorial, educational and artistic practices, it aims to foster a diverse network that is collectively invested in exploring the value of institutional memory through longer-term work.
For more details, and to register your interest in participating in this free workshop please complete this short form
Convened by: Isobel Whitelegg (Art Museum & Gallery Studies, University of Leicester)
and Ben Cranfield (Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art).
A British Art Network event, with support from the ESRC and Nottingham Contemporary
https://nottinghamcontemporary.org/whats-on/why-look-back-contemporary-art-institutional-memory/