Archive
The Interface Archive is a collection of both documentary and ephemeral evidence of performance work, and the outcomes related to the two research areas of Interface. Projects discussing the problems and challenges of archiving, and which relate directly to the work of the Interface Archive include:
Sample, a programme of events at PS² Gallery Belfast, 2006, which created a living archive in a public space inviting visitors to enter, explore and contribute to the archive;
• I Confess That I Was There… a short season of events in November/December 2006 which used a variety of formats – talks, lectures, discussion, performance, exhibited work and archive material – representing prototypes of art production and practice-based research, concerned with relations between art/artist, place, location, memory and context;
• This Will Not happen Without You, an exhibition from the archive of The Basement Group, Projects UK and Locus + (from 1977 – 2007) and an associated seminar, Archiving: An Accident of Practice?, looking at the responses of individual practitioners and organisations to issues of archiving their works, particularly timebased and public domain projects. www.locusplus.org.uk
• The collaborative Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project, Performing The Archive, with the University of Sunderland and Locus +, which looked at a broad range of archival practices and resources from the perspective of art and design research and in(ter)ventions in the public domain. The book and website, Arkive City (www.interface.ulster.ac.uk/arkivecity) are the result of this work;
• Folk Archive, a discussion event considering issues of cultural “ownership”, the means by which material is defined as “folk” and is held and/or distributed through organisation mechanisms, and also the meaning of the connections between recent contemporary art practice and folk art practice, in collaboration with CityArts, Dublin, www.cityarts.ie;
• Art of the Ordinary, Folk Archiving Art and Living Memory, a programme of events examining further the nature of folk and art, through the presentation of selected works by contemporary visual artists who use folk material in their work or whose work already occupies borderlines between definitions of ‘art’ and definitions of ‘folk’, in collaboration with CityArts, Dublin.
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If you are interested in finding out more about the Archive at Interface, please contact:
Grainne Loughran
Archivist
Interface - Research in Art Technologies and Design
School of Art and Design
University of Ulster
York Street
Belfast
BT15 1ED
Tel: 028 90 267217
Email: g.loughran@ulster.ac.uk