History/Reality #3 - Engaging with The Attic Archive Symposium

Description

Symposium held at the National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) at NCAD, Dublin focusing on legacy-building for artists’ archives. The symposium brought together leading performance artists, with contributions from Brian Connolly, Sandra Johnston, Alastair MacLennan and Calum Eccleston as well as art and design students, international archivists and curators to discuss how artists’ archives are built and how they can be engaged with and preserved.

This symposium was hosted by NIVAL as part of a series of HISTORY/REALITY events run by the research network ‘Curating the Digital Attic Archive: A Case Study For Open-Source Approaches To Artists’ Archives’. Led by Dr Judit Bodor (University of Dundee) and Dr Roddy Hunter (The Glasgow School of Art) and with network partners including the University of Dundee Archives, the National Library of Scotland, and Artpool Art Research Center, Museum of Fine Art, Budapest, this project explores sustainable and decentralised approaches to legacy-building for artists’ archives through the case study of Ha’s work (artist known as Peter Haining when assembling the HIBERNIA archive, held at NIVAL).

Period	9 Apr 2025
Event type	Other
Location	Dublin, IrelandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International