Repositioning the Archive Panel 3

93c.Repositioning the Archive

 

This three-part series investigates how the archive is repositioning, both as archival collection and as artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and is presented here in conjunction with their Summer Appeal.

 

Panel 3: “Artists Activating the Archive”

This panel examines the ways in which creative writers, visual artists, and performers are using archives as a catalyst in their own work and re-contextualizing archives as artwork. This panel focuses on the evolving collaboration between archival professionals and artists and how this new work is changing archives and art. Moderator: Marvin J. Taylor, New York University, Director & Curator, Fales Library

 

The panelists - D. Graham Burnett, Performance artist and writer, New York

Donald Daedalus, Visual artist, New York and past Center for Book Arts Scholar

Emilio Chapela Perez, Visual Artist, Mexico City

Lytle Shaw, Poet and Professor of English, New York University

Matt Wolf, independent filmmaker, New York.