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.
Some Notes on Access, Art, and Writing
Audio version of this blog post can be listened to here: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/animatingarchives/files/2022/07/Some-Notes-on-Access_mixdown2.mp3...
Archiving Ambivalence: Fight For the Aylesbury
The above documents are held by the activist social movement archive Mayday Rooms. They are held within a collection of material archived...
Hannah Kemp-Welch: Voice, Glitch Feminism and community engagement with archives
Glitch Feminism proposes that an error in a social system is a moment for revisioning and change. ‘This glitch is a correction to the “machine”,...
Tracing Black Queer Modernism in the Archive: Duncan Grant’s Erotic Drawings
In the 1950s and 60s, the white British artist Duncan Grant created an archive of over four hundred and twenty erotic drawings, the majority of...
Resilient and Resisting: Collaborative Storytelling
Jet Moon Between 2018-2019 Jet Moon created Resilient and Resisting, a collaborative storytelling and oral history project that collects stories...
Hannah Waters: Encountering the Jean Spencer Archives
The afternoon is cold and crisp. I’m a little early, so I take my time as I wander through to the Women’s Art Library, clutching a green slip of...
