aemi & IMMA Archives LIVE events: ‘Artists Working with Archives’, ‘Conservation in Motion’ | Listen to Soundcloud recordings

Published date: 30 Oct 2020

Earlier this month aemi was delighted to partner with IMMA to present Archives LIVE, a series of live-streamed public dialogues that reflect on the significant role played by the archive and museum collection in artist moving image culture, both in generating new work and as an overarching structure that supports the conservation of existing moving image practice.

The first session of Archives LIVE, Artists Working with Archives (Wed 07 Oct, 6.30pm), examined the archive as a resource, an enduring subject of interest and site of research for film artists.  aemi co-directors Alice Butler and Daniel Fitzpatrick lead a discussion with acclaimed artists Helen Cammock, Onyeka Igwe and Frank Sweeney to consider the creative and critical ways in which they activate and mediate the archive and archive material in their work.
Listen to Archives LIVE: Artists Working With Archives here

The second session of Archives LIVE, Conservation in Motion (Wed 21 Oct, 6.30pm) focused on the conservation process that a moving image work goes through when it is acquired by an archive or a collection. Drawing on work of IMMA Collection artist Jaki Irvine, this session centred on the ‘conservator to artist conversation’, as intrinsic to the work of time-based media conservation. Dr. Brian Castriota (conservator) conducted a conversation with Jaki Irvine to learn about the making of these works, and offered a live demonstration of how these kind of interviews between film artist and conservator are key to his work.
Listen to Archives LIVE: Conservation in Motion here

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