Curating The Digital Attic Archive Research Network Meeting #1: History/Reality [workshop]

Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

Description

Workshop as part of the first international research network meeting in the Curating the Digital Attic Archive MCO research project (Bodor PI), hosted by University of Dundee Archives and led by Dr Judit Bodor. The workshop focused on the voices of the Attic Archive through oral history testimony by artist Karen Strang (Perth), writer Stewart Home (London) and artist-curator Malcolm Dickson (Glasgow). All collaborators of Pete Horobin in the 1980s Home, Strang and Dickson were invited to talk to international research network partners and interested archivists and curators at University of Dundee about their lived experience and cultural context of the formation of the archive and collaborative relationship with the artist Pete Horobin, and contribution to the archive in the 1980s. In addition, they shared material from their personal archives to fill some gaps in the institutional collection. Material discussed was digitised after the event and will be added to University of Dundee Archives, and the web-platform (MCO Output) as an extension of the Attic Archive collection. The discussion brought new insight into artists' networks in Scotland in the 1980s and internationally connected to Neoism, as well as histories of artist publications, including Variant Magazine and SMILE. The edited version of the recording of the event will be made public online on the research project's web platform when it launches in 2025. The full recording will be stored at the University of Dundee Archives to aid further research.
Period4 Apr 2024
Event typeWorkshop
LocationDundee, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • oral history
  • archives
  • Attic Archive
  • workshop