1st Edition
The Materiality of the Archive Creative Practice in Context
Part I
In the Archive: practices and encounters
1 ‘Material evidences surviving in the form of writing’: materiality in archival theory and practice
Alexandrina Buchanan
2 ’The true object of study’: the material body of the analogue archive
Sue Breakell
3 Archival finding aids and perceptual frames: extending material contact points through Stephen Chaplin’s Slade School Archive Reader
Liz Bruchet
4 Archiving with scissors: materiality and cutting practices in photographic archives
Costanza Caraffa
Part II
With the archive: energy
5 Valentine’s Jacket
Maryanne Dever
6 The archive as a site of making
Peter Lester
7 Applications of energy: a study of artists and entropy in the material
Lisa Cianci
8 Archival endings: erosion and erasure in the film archive
Elodie A. Roy
Part III
About the Archive: Technologies
9 The material archive everyday: technologies of the filing system
Sarah Cain
10 The materialism of techno-archival memory
Wolfgang Ernst
11 Paper tensions: from flipbooks to scanners – the role of paper in moving image practices
Amanda Egbe
12 Expressing materiality in archival records
Athanasios Velios
Part IV
Beyond the archive: expanding the frame
13 Lost unities: the materiality of the migrated archives
James Lowry and Forget Chaterera-Zambuko
14 Fabrications: the quilt as archive
Claire Smith
15 Performing gestures towards the archive: queer fragments and other ways of mattering
Ben Cranfield
16 ‘That’s special, we’ll keep that’: a conversation about counter archiving and socially engaged practice at Tate Exchange
Sarah Haylett, Lucy Bayley, Cara Courage, Julia LePla, Pip Laurenson, Hélia Marçal and Kit Webb
Biography
Sue Breakell is Archive Director and Principal Research Fellow at the University of Brighton Design Archives, UK. She was formerly head of Tate Archive, London and War Artists Archivist / Museum Archivist at IWM London. Her research bridges critical archive studies, twentieth century art and design history and material culture.
Wendy Russell is an independent researcher and Special Collections Archivist at the British Film Institute, UK. She has formerly worked at the Archives and Special Collections Centre at the University of the Arts London, and as a freelance archivist. She was Secretary then Chair of the ARLIS/UK & Ireland Committee for Art and Design Archives (CADA) between 2011-2018.
