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.
Selina Robertson: Remembering through creative practice the cultural archives of London’s feminist and lesbian film programming and curating histories of the 1980s
Rio Cinema facade, 1985 (Rio Cinema Archive) This is the second of our guest submissions that consider the positionality of the researcher in the...
Henry Mulhall, ‘I told you she was Labour’
Image: Film poster for The Way We Live, dir. Jill Craigie (IMDB) This is the first of our guest submissions that consider the positionality of the...
East London Cable: tv for the tv-less generation
East London Cable are making television content for a post-broadcast world. Drawing on grassroots activism and histories of artist-run sites...
The Dustbin of History: Katie Hare’s Skip
Katie Hare is a London based artist whose narrative practice exists across video, performance and text; using personal memories of popular culture...
Call for Blog Proposals
We’re opening the Animating Archives blog to public submissions of text and images by anyone working on materials related to feminist,...
Masculine Maternity: Terry Dennett and the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive
Anyone who was born out of a mother ought to know that originality is at best overrated and in all probability impossible. Yet in the art market and...
