HAUNTED ARCHIVES OF LIVINGNESS: Visual Culture and the Politics of Care in the Age of Ecological Entanglement. 6th REFRAMING THE ARCHIVE International Conference of Photography and Visual Culture.

PROGRAM:

SEPTEMBER 24

10h30 — WELCOME
Ana Catarina Pinho, RTA Convenor / ARCHIVO Director

10h35 — INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRAM
Vanessa Badagliacca, RTA 25 Program Chair

10h50 — KEYNOTE SPEAKER: "DOING FIELDWORK WITH THE EXPANDED ARCHIVE"
Bergit Arendt, The Courtauld, United Kingdom

11h45 — Discussion and Q&A, moderated by Vanessa Badagliacca

13h00 — BREAK

14h00 — PANEL 1: ETHICAL ISSUES AND AFFECTIVE ECOLOGIES IN THE MUSEUM, An Encounter between Art and Science
Moderated by Laia Anguix-Vilches, Utrecht University

Abalone Futurism: Iridescent Art in Native California
REILLY CLARK, University of California, Santa Barbara

Abbottʼs Many Hearts: Death, Touch, and the Haunted Archive of Medical Collections
MAIA NICHOLS, San Diego State University

Medical Photographic Archives in the Museum - Vector for a Techno-Aesthetics of Medical Knowledge
ANCA POP, Royal Holloway, University of London / V&A Museum, Photography Department, London

15h00 — PANEL 2: RETHINKING THE ARCHIVE FROM THE MATERIALITY AND IMPERMANENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Moderated by Concepción Cortés Zulueta, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC)

Reframing the Wallal Archie: Feminist Intervention, Creative Practice and the Photographic Fragment
CHLOE BARTRAM, Murdoch University

How Long Is Long Enough - Can Art be valuable, even if it disappears? The Archive Beyond Permanence
ANNA ROSA KRAU, SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences - School of Arts, Information and Media (AIM)

Seeing Through the Other: Empathy and the Phenomenology of the Archival Image
LUCREZIA ZANARDI, Radboud University / Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts

16h00 — PANEL 3: ARCHIVING AS A NURTURING ACTION OF POLITICAL COEXISTENCE
Moderated by Stephanie Von Spreter, UiT, The Artic University of Norway, Tromsø

Resurrecting the Unarchived: Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and Its Politics of Self-narration
HYUNAH LEE, Technical University of Munich

"Casa de tres llaves": A Speculative Archive to Imagine Housing Futures from the Margins
TANA GARRIDO, Independent Researcher

17h00 — END OF SESSION

SEPTEMBER 25

10h30 — WELCOME
Ana Catarina Pinho, RTA Convenor / ARCHIVO Director

10h35 — GUEST SPEAKER: "ARCHIVES OF “WORLD MATERIALS”: MNGRV, PECHBLENDE"
SUSANNE KRIEMANN, Visual Artist, Germany

11h30 — Discussion and Q&A, moderated by Vanessa Badagliacca

12h00 — ROUND TABLE, Moderated by Vanessa Badagliacca
Speakers:
HEATHER DIACK, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
JACK FABER, Artist / Filmmaker / Artist-researcher, Sub Artic regions SAMIA HENNI, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

13h30 — BREAK

14h30 — PANEL 4: HAUNTED ARCHIVES OF MIGRATION AND DIASPORIC MEMORY
Moderated by Heather Diack, Toronto Metropolitan University

Performing the Scattered Archive: Repertoires of Diasporic Memory in Gesture and Decay
MAHSA SHEYDANI, Loughborough University

Haunted Archives: On Silence, Disappearance, and (In)visibility
SIYING WU, University of Edinburgh

Resonant Refusals: Post-Internet Archives of ESEA Migrant Memory and More-than-Human Decay
NAM JOO HUH, Loughborough University

15h30 — PANEL 5: REMEMORYING THE PLANET. On More-Than Human Archives
Moderated by Emiliano Guaraldo, University of St. Gallen

Patchy: Incomplete Readings of Landscape as Archive
JOELLA KIU, Singapore Art Museum

River, borders, imagination and contested histories in Zoe Leonard's Al Río / To the River
ESTÉFANI BOUZA ARNOSO, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

The Visual Archive as Embodied Process: Disrupting Oil Narratives by Reimagining Petro-Geographies
JESSIE MARTIN, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

16h30 — PANEL 6: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE AS A PLACE OF RESISTANCE, Counter-narratives through mythmaking and digital archive
Moderated by Diego Mantoan, University of Palermo

Archival hauntings in the present for the future: The photographic image as a mythmaking tool
MAJA DANIELS, Gothenburg University

Our Days of Gold: Haunted Digital Life of a Photography Archive ASSUNTA RUOCCO, University of Lincoln

17h30 — END OF SESSION

SEPTEMBER 26

10h30 — WELCOME
Ana Catarina Pinho, RTA Convenor / ARCHIVO Director

10h35 — GUEST SPEAKER: "IN A DIM LIGHT. PHOTOGRAPHY, BODIES, OBJECTS, LANDSCAPES"
XAVIER RIBAS, Visual Artist, United Kingdom

11h30 — Discussion and Q&A, moderated by Vanessa Badagliacca

12h00 — ROUND TABLE, Moderated by Vanessa Badagliacca
Speakers:
SÖREN MESCHEDE, Cultural Manager / Producer, Spain
BORBÁLA SOÓS, Curator, United Kingdom
MARIANNA TSIONKI & MARIANA CUNHA, Leeds Arts University / University of Westminster, United Kingdom

13h30 — BREAK

14h30 — PANEL 7: SUBVERSIVE ARCHIVAL MODES AND DECOLONIALITY
Moderated by Marianna Tsionki, Leeds Arts University

Reimagining archival (im)plausibility: Innovation, techno-utopias and plundering in Operation Sunken Sea by Heba Y. Amin
AMANDA TAVARES, Instituto de História da Arte, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Rage Against the Archive: Institutional Critique through New Media Art
ANSHUL ROY, University of Colorado Boulder

Impermanentia: The Archive, Lacunae, and Imagination as Living Process
ISABEL DANTAS DOS REIS, Independent Researcher

15h30 — PANEL 8: REMEMORYING AS AN ACTIVATION OF PERSONAL ARCHIVES AND A PRACTICE OF CARE
Moderated by Claire Raymond, University of Maine

The House of Vera: Memory Reconstruction Through Personal Archive and Machine Vision
VERA GAILIS, Independent Artist and Curator

ARCHIVIO LETIA - living artist archive as a contemporary bottega
LETIZIA MARIA CARIELLO, Academy of Fine Arts of Brera

Silent Witnessing and Engagement of Intersubjective Disaster Memory Transmission
YUKO YOSHIDA, Shiga University

16h30 — PANEL 9: ECCENTRIC ARCHIVING. ON LIVING ORGANISM
Moderated by Eva Botella, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Building archives of care in artistic practices with plants through SF writing
JOSÉ IMANOL BASURTO LUCIO, Independent Researcher

An eccentric archive that celebrates interconnected life
BELÉN CEREZO, Independent Researcher

17h30 — CLOSING REMARKS, Vanessa Badagliacca and Ana Catarina Pinho

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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Ana Catarina Pinho (Conference Chair), IHA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Vanessa Badagliacca (RTA 2025 Program Chair), Independent Researcher

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Concepción Cortés Zulueta, Research fellow at Ramón y Cajal Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN), CSIC
Diego Mantoan, Associate Professor, Art history and digital humanities, University of Palermo
Juliane Debeusscher, Independent researcher
Luis Guerra Miranda, visual artist, Senior Research fellow at Ramón y Cajal, Instituto de Filosofía, CSIC.
Synnøve Marie Vik, Senior curator, PhD, Kode Bergen Art Museum
Vanessa Badagliacca, Independent researcher