How would you archive this?
– a interview that is closed off for 30 years but is digital
– with transcript
– with photographs analogue
– about gender
– about race
How would you access this?
TASK:
Start conversations around how we archive things
AIM:
Collect experts’ opinions on strange archiving situation
TYPES OF CARDS
ARCHIVE
– KGB archive
– British Library
– https://www.alternativetoronto.ca/archive/about
– https://creativememory.org/en/archives/
– TWAM
– Black archive
ARCHIVE ITEM
– A wax cylinder recording of an aboriginal voice
– Australian housewives
– Sex workers
– Transperson
– UN oral history
– Lady at the races
– The Edwardians
– With photographs
CHANGE
– Terrorism
– Fire
– Flood
– Earthquake
– Malware
– Ethnic cleansing
–
fire, accidental
fire, arson
flooding, from outside flooding, from inside earthquake
other ‘natural causes’
armed conflict
removed by occupying forces civil disorder
terrorism
inherent instability
bacteria, insects and rodents mould and humidity
dust
pollution
bad storage
lack of restoration capacity bad restoration
neglect
while moving offices administrative order unauthorised destruction theft
use
INTERPRETERS
– Podcasters
– Journalist
– Artist
– Writers
– Film makers
– Creators
– Investigators
– Historians
– Family
– People in search of identity