Meeting # 4 Points of Action
Meeting #4
Place: Peckham Rye, in between Tate Britain and Flat Time
Present: All plus one New Member
Discussion:
1. Having visited the British Museum Historical Administrative Archive, the Tate Britain Archive and John Lantham’s Flat Time House Foundation and Archive, we discussed how to take the project further.
KEY WORKING THEMES: Archive as Law, Politics, Nation and History, Narrative, as House, as Body, as Living/Dead, Activation, Dialectics - key references, Derrida Archive Theory and etymology of Archive (Arkhe) and Henri Lefebvre's Science of Space.
SUMMARY:
Kiki: White Cube Transcript, Facebook Correspondence, Mapping, Ethics
Baiba: White Cube correspondence, arranging white cube study day, Virginia Woolf, present key points from text to show theoretical entry point into BM, Response to BM, Notes on Public/Private?
Lisa: LAW: Correspondence with King’s Library, freedom of info act research (Lisa it’s in the reference library if you need it) Data protection Act, Organising Bank Archive tour…correspondence.
Anna: Inter-Archive (notes on the Archive), theory – Glasgow University – ask for reading list/info on Archive course, UCL same, OCCUPY/School of Ideas..(Anna this might of interest? http://www.investigatingthearchive.org/)
Galia: Radio Archives – Look to tour Audio Archives – investigating possibilities of radio as platform, transcripts and recordings, Danish Radio Archives
Rachel: Notes on the archive – insert theory/research into weebly – on Archive and Audio, help with transcripts, ICA Archive, contribute to artist and archive - Notes on fiction/history (this might work in BM, where we link Virginia Woolf to our own trip?)
Steph: Meeting notes, notes on BM, Tate and Lantham, connect to Derrida Archive Fever, work on White Cube section – notes on space (Hal Foster), Working on Weebly – Web Stats, Archive of Para-Archive, correspondence with National Archive/www.archive.org,
FOR EVERYONE:
AIM FOR WEEBLY: input all material from visits/trips and discussions/etc..research from past three weeks.
1. Add info to the reference library (links etc..) (but also post proper bibliography either in the Plan of the Present Work section (1st Tab) or in the relevant section (see White Cube bibliography as an example). Add to the blogs in each section (notes on..) ie. Notes on Sound(s)….can be artists, theories, ideas etc…thoughts..anything!!
2. Reflections on each visit and post images into “the visit” sections for each place visited…
3. Make sure all info regarding project, correspondence etc.. is entered (if it is easier send to Kiki/Stef or post on facebook group for archiving on the Weebly.
4. Think of ways to develop project through each tab – ie. do we need to ask further questions for BM? TATE? Ie. which parts need to be expanded (for example I am interested in the acquisitions documentation in the BM archive)
5. Think of text for an Archive reader?
Next week:
Tues 10am at British Museum: CAN WE WRITE A LIST OF REQUESTS FOR WHAT WE WANT TO SEE: (Baiba to send correspondence)
Steph: Karl Marx application for Reading Room and reference letters, also for William Morris, Richard Dadd, Joseph Fielding, and Documentation of discussions surrounding Acquisitions by the Museum, including the Elgin Marbles.
Wednesday 10am at Café Natura and then maybe 6:30 meeting with Charlie?
Thursday -11-6pm WHITE CUBE working ideas:
1. Do a glossary – everyone come with keywords to discuss/debate.
2. Discuss visits with key theoretical texts/ideas ie. public/private and see what conclusions emerge.
3. Organise weebly
4. program next phase of project- ie. King’s Law Library, National Archives, Radio Archives, Archive.org.
5. Discuss Digital/Online
6. Revise On the Commons (key reading for Thursday)
Place: Peckham Rye, in between Tate Britain and Flat Time
Present: All plus one New Member
Discussion:
1. Having visited the British Museum Historical Administrative Archive, the Tate Britain Archive and John Lantham’s Flat Time House Foundation and Archive, we discussed how to take the project further.
KEY WORKING THEMES: Archive as Law, Politics, Nation and History, Narrative, as House, as Body, as Living/Dead, Activation, Dialectics - key references, Derrida Archive Theory and etymology of Archive (Arkhe) and Henri Lefebvre's Science of Space.
SUMMARY:
Kiki: White Cube Transcript, Facebook Correspondence, Mapping, Ethics
Baiba: White Cube correspondence, arranging white cube study day, Virginia Woolf, present key points from text to show theoretical entry point into BM, Response to BM, Notes on Public/Private?
Lisa: LAW: Correspondence with King’s Library, freedom of info act research (Lisa it’s in the reference library if you need it) Data protection Act, Organising Bank Archive tour…correspondence.
Anna: Inter-Archive (notes on the Archive), theory – Glasgow University – ask for reading list/info on Archive course, UCL same, OCCUPY/School of Ideas..(Anna this might of interest? http://www.investigatingthearchive.org/)
Galia: Radio Archives – Look to tour Audio Archives – investigating possibilities of radio as platform, transcripts and recordings, Danish Radio Archives
Rachel: Notes on the archive – insert theory/research into weebly – on Archive and Audio, help with transcripts, ICA Archive, contribute to artist and archive - Notes on fiction/history (this might work in BM, where we link Virginia Woolf to our own trip?)
Steph: Meeting notes, notes on BM, Tate and Lantham, connect to Derrida Archive Fever, work on White Cube section – notes on space (Hal Foster), Working on Weebly – Web Stats, Archive of Para-Archive, correspondence with National Archive/www.archive.org,
FOR EVERYONE:
AIM FOR WEEBLY: input all material from visits/trips and discussions/etc..research from past three weeks.
1. Add info to the reference library (links etc..) (but also post proper bibliography either in the Plan of the Present Work section (1st Tab) or in the relevant section (see White Cube bibliography as an example). Add to the blogs in each section (notes on..) ie. Notes on Sound(s)….can be artists, theories, ideas etc…thoughts..anything!!
2. Reflections on each visit and post images into “the visit” sections for each place visited…
3. Make sure all info regarding project, correspondence etc.. is entered (if it is easier send to Kiki/Stef or post on facebook group for archiving on the Weebly.
4. Think of ways to develop project through each tab – ie. do we need to ask further questions for BM? TATE? Ie. which parts need to be expanded (for example I am interested in the acquisitions documentation in the BM archive)
5. Think of text for an Archive reader?
Next week:
Tues 10am at British Museum: CAN WE WRITE A LIST OF REQUESTS FOR WHAT WE WANT TO SEE: (Baiba to send correspondence)
Steph: Karl Marx application for Reading Room and reference letters, also for William Morris, Richard Dadd, Joseph Fielding, and Documentation of discussions surrounding Acquisitions by the Museum, including the Elgin Marbles.
Wednesday 10am at Café Natura and then maybe 6:30 meeting with Charlie?
Thursday -11-6pm WHITE CUBE working ideas:
1. Do a glossary – everyone come with keywords to discuss/debate.
2. Discuss visits with key theoretical texts/ideas ie. public/private and see what conclusions emerge.
3. Organise weebly
4. program next phase of project- ie. King’s Law Library, National Archives, Radio Archives, Archive.org.
5. Discuss Digital/Online
6. Revise On the Commons (key reading for Thursday)