The Animating Archives blog include posts from PhD researchers, artists, archivists and art historians. These explore the creative possibilities of animating archives in practice-based and art historical research.
Who is Prem Chandra? by Alina Khakoo
Content note: this post contains mentions of domestic violence and suicide. I first encountered Prem Chandra when I worked on a display of her...
Mud: Greenham Common at the MayDay Rooms by Alexandra Kokoli
The women’s peace camp at Greenham Common (1981-2000) was born out of fear of the prospect of nuclear war and frustration at the misguided...
Holly Antrum: Markéta’s Notes
Artist and filmmaker Holly Antrum reflects on her recent artwork Markéta’s Notes, which featured in the exhibition ‘Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen:...
Animating Archives Workshop 4: Creative Captioning in the Archive
This workshop, organised by Beth Bramich and Hatty Nestor and led by the two co-founders of The Art of Captioning, Hannah Wallis and Sarah Hayden,...
Animating Archives Workshop 3: ARCHIVABLE at the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive
Led by Beth Bramich and Hatty Nestor, this session aimed to introduce PhD researchers to a range of creative and political approaches to working...
The Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing (DAAP): Building a Gossipy Archive with Linked Open Data
DAAP – the Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing – is an interactive, user-driven, searchable database of artists’ books and publications. It was...
