• Symposium

Future Memories. What do archives remember?

Symposium

Dates

  • Su 23.04., 15:00–17:00

Language

  • German

To the exhibition

The archive exhibition An Imaginary Audience. A Brief History of Performance Art at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden is the third part of the SYNCH series and follows research into the exhibition history of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, viewed through the performances that have taken place here.

As part of the project, the Kunsthalle team has begun to reflect on its archive and its own exhibition history. Both are currently being developed in greater depth as part of the digital strategy and will be presented as part of the relaunch of the Kunsthalle's website. The aim is to synchronize institutional and social forms of remembrance and to establish forms of representation as critical tools that transparently depict the past and inform the future.

Why? What significance does an archive have for an institution? And how do archives differ from one another? What do digital technologies mean for an archive? And what potential does an archive hold for different audiences?

We would like to discuss these and other questions with you and experts on April 23 from 3 pm. We will be offering a guided tour of the exhibition beforehand.

Future Memories. What do archives remember?

Archives are a form of process-based knowledge. They are constantly growing and represent their own genealogy in terms of form and content. We can read narratives and decisions of the past in them, but we can also recognize in them the representation of inherent power structures and non-diverse imprints.

Archives are anything but immobile. Digital technologies, consistent open source licensing or participatory forms of involvement are already being used as part of complex strategies to promote the diversification of archives.

We look forward to inputs from, among others

  • Dominik Bönisch, scientific project manager of Training the Archive, Düsseldorf
  • Dr. Katarina Schorb, project coordinator of the ORC (Open Resource Center), HfG Karlsruhe
  • Dr. Martin Stingl, State Archive of Baden-Württemberg

Program:

  • 2 p.m.: Guided tour with Johanna Sentef, research volunteer
  • 3 p.m.: Welcome by Misal Adnan Yıldız, Director of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
  • 15:05: Introduction by Dominik Busch, digital curator
  • 15:15 to approx. 16:30: Inputs
  • 16:30 to approx. 17:00: Discussion, moderated by Dominik Busch

The event will be held in German and is free of charge.