REFRAMING THE ARCHIVE.
International Conference 2024.
5th Edition:
ARCHIVAL PRACTICES IN CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS: A MODEL AND A SOURCE
Chair: Annalisa Laganà

Virtual event (ZOOM), registration: https://www.reframingthearchive.com

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PROGRAM

THURSDAY, Sept 26, 2024

10:00 | Opening remarks
Ana Catarina Pinho, Annalisa Laganà

10:15 | Guest Speaker: COSTANZA CARAFFA​
Reinventing the archive space, performing the Photothek​
— Conversation moderated by Annalisa Laganá
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11:30 | PANEL I: ARTISTS' ARCHIVES​
Moderator: TBA
Tracing the Archive of Ana Mendieta
Hatty Nestor, Reading University of London
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From a Work Collection to an Art Archive
Vanessa Scharrer, Elfie Semotan Private Archive
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'Thinking Through’ the Artist’s Archive. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, a complex case study
Lucy J. Rogers, University of Westminster
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12:30 | PANEL II: IDENTITY
Moderator: Paola Scirchio (Università della Callabria)
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Exposed Fractures. Unraveled Explorations of the Representation of Nature in the Andes Mountains of Chile
María del Rosario Montero Prieto, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Universidad Finis Terrae
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Clipping and Cropping. Towards a (Re)Reading of the Pictures Generation through the Archival, the Photographic and the Editorial
Javier Iáñez Picazo, Complutense University of Madrid
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Nomadic Memories as Artistic Archives. Central Asian Counter Narratives in Gulzat Egemberdieva’s Films
Birgit Eusterschulte, Freie Universität Berlin
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13:30 | BREAK
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14:30 | Guest Speaker: LINDA FREGNI NAGLER
How to Look at a Camera​
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Conversation moderated by Annalisa Laganá
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15:30 | PARALLEL PANELS
PANEL III: COLONIALITY, POST-COLONIALITY, DECOLONIALITY
Moderator: Paola Scirchio (Università della Callabria)
Futures of Whiteness in post-colonising space. Interrogating the archive through folding in practice
Sian Gouldstone, Bournemouth University
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‘Every Name in History is I and I is Other’. Speculative Fiction and the Archive in İz Öztat’s with Zişan
Ahmet Furkan Inan, University of Oxford / Ruskin School of Art
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Countervisuality and Resistance. Reframing the Archive in Carl Beam’s Columbus Suite
Stefan Jovanovic, Concordia University
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PANEL IV: COUNTER-ARCHIVES
Moderator: Ana Catarina Pinho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
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Material Memories - Material Secrets. Scrutinising Switzerland's Role in the Second World War through a Counter-archive
Vera Zurbrügg, LCC, University of the Arts London
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The Role of Self-Historicisation in Contesting Official Narratives. Artists’ Archives and the Documentation of the Self and Identity in Central Eastern Europe
Lili Alma Somlo, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
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Epistemic Disobedience in the “Shadow Archive”. (Neo)Physiognomic Concerns in Italian Activist Art
Giorgia Ravaioli, Università di Torino
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16:30 | PARALLEL PANELS

PANEL V: CRITIQUE
Moderator: Marianna Tsionki (Leeds Arts University)
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Susan Dobson. Slide⏐Lecture. A Model and a (Res)source for Archival Critique in Contemporary Photography
Audrey Leblanc, EHESS, Paris
Gaelle Morel, Toronto Metropolitan University
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An Archival Impulse. Twenty Years Later
Rita Cêpa, CIEBA-FBAUL, IHA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST
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Restoring history, recreating the past. The use of archives in performance-lectures by contemporary artists
Gabriela Sá, Federal University of Minas Gerais
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PANEL VI: POLITICAL FRAMES
Moderator: Elisabeth Friedman (Illinois State University)
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Mess and destruction at archival interfaces
Savannah Dodd, Photography Ethics Centre/Queen's University Belfast
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Searching for Leo. Creative uses of the archive in a place of remembering and forgetting
Inés Rae, University of Plymouth
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A Reflection on “Archival Practices”. Archive as Artwork, Artwork as Archive in Vadim Zakharov
Alessandra Franetovich, University of Florence
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17:30 | CLOSING SESSION

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FRIDAY, Sept 27, 2024

10:00 | Opening remarks
Ana Catarina Pinho, Annalisa Laganà

10:10 | Guest Speaker: REIN JELLE TERPSTRA​
Title RFK Funeral Train - The People's View. The reversed perspective​
FILMSCREENING
— Conversation moderated by Ana Catarina Pinho
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11:30 | PANEL VII: HISTORIOGRAPHY
Moderator: Annalisa Laganà (Università della Callabria)
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The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (1979-1999). The photographic collection as a platform for the creation and dissemination of architectural knowledge
Natália Correia Brandão, Technical University of Munich
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The Diary of Polish Art Life 1945-1989. The Case of the 20th and 21st Century Visual Art Documentation Department at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences
Karolina Labowicz-Dymanus, Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences
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A toolkit for artists and illustrators. The photographic archive Matania in Naples
Gaia Salvatori, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa
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12:30 | PANEL VIII: ATLASES
Moderator: Jennifer Good (University of the Arts London)
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Navigating Difference. Myth, Body, and Desire in Hudinilson Jr.'s Cadernos de referências Dis-Archive Practice
Simone Rossi, Università Iuav di Venezia / Universidade de São Paulo
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Transforming Historical Maps into Personal Narratives. "Dialectical contemporaneity’ at the University of Porto
Nelson David Correia Lopes, I2ADS / FBAUP Universidade do Porto
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From Atlas to Archive. William Eggleston’s Election Eve, 1976
Alexandra Ruth Nicolaides, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
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13:30 | BREAK
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14:30 | PARALLEL PANELS
PANEL IX: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
Moderator: TBA
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Archiving the Disaster. Preservation, Separation and Encounter
Ioanna Sakellaraki, RMIT University
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Turning into Memory. e-flux Announcements between Artist Project and Archive
Camilla Salvaneschi, Università Iuav di Venezia
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In Search of Ghosts. Archival Instability and Plant Extinction
Liz Orton, LCC University of the Arts London​​
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PANEL X: MEMORY
Moderator: Ana Catarina Pinho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa​)
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Mediating the Past, Making (in) the Present. Contemporary Artistic Practices from Turkey and the Construction of Memory Around 6-7 September 1955
Defne Oruç, London College of Contemporary Arts
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Wellow: Recounting ancestral memories of place through lens-based autobiographical practice
Sally Waterman, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom UK
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The artist’s archive as a collective task. Reconstructing memories of a lost Venezuela
Amalia Caputo Dodge, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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15:30 | PARALLEL PANELS
PANEL XI: MUSEUMS
Moderator: Annalisa Laganà (Università della Callabria)
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On Establishing the Book Arts Archive of the Caversham Press and Centre for Artists and Writers
David Murray Paton, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
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Live archive to live art
Nina Rahe, University of São Paulo
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Listening colonial photographs. Adwa and my Sonic Journey in Decolonizing Museums
Livia Dubon Bohlig, Kingston University, London
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PANEL XII: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Moderator: TBA
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Curating the Internet. Photo-Archival Practices in the Work of Evan Roth
Yonit Aronowicz, Paris Cité University
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Rewilding the Digital Archive. An Artistic Exploration of the Bug as a Queer and Decolonial Agent
Martina Denegri, Univeristy of Groningen
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Recontextualising NGO facebook archives through practice as a method of reframing contemporary representations of the 'refugee crisis' in Northern France
Anna Gormley, University of Gloucester & Cardiff University
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16:30 | PARALLEL PANELS

PANEL XIII: PRACTICES
Moderator: Evan Hume (Iowa State University)
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Artists' Multiples: Archives in Motion
Jim Drobnick, OCAD University, Toronto
Jennifer Fisher, York University, Toronto
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The archive as artistic practice. Dayanita Singh’s constructed contact sheet photographic archives
Deborah Schultz, Regent's University London
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Museum, archive, phantoms
Agnieszka Rayss, Social Science and Psychology University, Warsaw
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PANEL XIV: PROJECTS
Moderator: Marta Labad (University of Technology, Arts and Design)
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From fluid art to fluid archive. A dive into an online documentation project of ephemeral art and action since the 1960s
Annemarie Kok, University of Groningen
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Experiencing the University Archives through Curated Learning Teaching in the Visual Arts with the Help of Primary Sources
Lindsay Demchuk, University of Regina
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Challenges of Establishing and Preserving the Collection
The Case of Vera Dajht-Kralj’s archive
Karla Lebhaft, University of Zagreb
Ana Kršinic Lozica, University of Zagreb
Ivana Završki, Independent Researcher
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17:30 | CLOSING SESSION