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

Description

Oral history event 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 event recorded voices from The Attic Archive including 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 event recording will be made available 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.

Period	4 Apr 2024
Event type	Workshop
Location	Dundee, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National