Archives and, therefore, art archives as well, are no longer understood as organic series of immobile documents produced by a person or an institution; they are constantly changing living places containing documents that are permanently activated, by archivists, students and researchers. Moreover, modern archive doctrine has omitted the concept of author in the archive, despite the fact that some archivistic practices turn the action into a joint creation, with multi-authorship, in which every step, activation or process creates a semantically new document that involves an author.

 

In this context, the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and the Museu Picasso Barcelona are pooling knowledge and resources to organize an International symposium on archive practice in 21st-century art that will bring together archivists, curators, artists, historians and researchers from all over the world.

 

The International symposium revolves around two coincident essential actions: ARCHIVING understood as a practice constructed reflexively and EXHIBITING understood as the territory in which archiving becomes a public act.

• 9 | 9.30 am Accreditations
• 9.30 | 10  am Welcome
• 10 | 10.45  am Keynote speech: Archive Art. Doctor Eric Ketelaar, professor emeritus of Archivistics, Universiteit van Amsterdam
• 10.45 | 11.15 am Coffee break
• 11.15 | 11.35 am Practical cases: Art, Artifice, Archives: Considering the links between facts, evidence and truth. Laura Millar, independent consultant in records, archives, and information management
• 11.35 | 11.55 am Reactivating Historical Archives in Art and Design Museums. Michael Karabinos, archivist and historian
• 11.55 | 12.15 pm Cas Arxiu Brigitte Baer: una estratigrafia (Archive Brigitte Baer Case: a stratigraphy). Sílvia Domènech, Head of the Centre de Coneixement i Recerca of the Museu Picasso Barcelona and Núria Solé Bardalet, Archivist of the Museu Picasso Barcelona
• 12.15 | 12.25 pm Break
• 12.25 | 13.30 pm Discussion panel: Discussion moderated by Jorge Blasco, researcher, writer and curator. Participation of all the speakers in the morning session.
• 13.30 | 15.30 pm Lunch

• 3.30 | 4.15 pm Keynote speech. Archives on Show. Beatrice von Bismarck, professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
• 4.15 | 4.35 pm Practical cases: Sala Colonial Project. Catarina Simão, artist
• 4.35 | 4.55 pm The Muses and the Archive. Debora Rossi, Head of La Biennale di Venezia Archive
• 4.55 | 5.55 pm Discussion panel. Discussion moderated by Mela Dávila, independent researcher, curator and consultant on art archives and artist’s publications. Participation of all the speakers in the afternoon session

 

• 9 | 9.30 am Accreditations
• 9.30 | 10 am Welcome
• 10 | 10.45 am Keynote speech: Arxius polièdrics, continguts plurals (Polyhedral archives, plural contents). Ramon Alberch, coordinator of the Cultural Dynamization Work Group of the Archives of the Association of Latin-American Archivists (ALA-GTDCA)
• 10.45 | 11.15 am Coffee break
• 11.15 | 11.35 am Practical cases: Maniements d’archives (Handling of archives). Philippe Artières, researcher in history at CNRS (IRIS/Ehess,Paris-Condorcet)
• 11.35 | 11.55 am La vida de les obres (The life of the works). Perejaume, artist and writer
• 11.55 | 12.15 am Els límits de la voluntat en els arxius dels artistes. El fons Hermen Anglada Camarasa com a example (The limits of willingness in the archives of artists. The Hermen Anglada Camarasa collection as an example). Pilar Cuerva, head of the Centre de Recerca i Coneixement (CREC) of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
• 12.15 | 12.25 pm Break
• 12.25 | 1.30 pm Discussion panel. Discussion moderated by Jorge Blasco, researcher, writer and curator. Participation of all the speakers in the morning session
• 1.30 | 3.30 pm Lunch

AFTERNOON — EXHIBITING

 

3.30 | 4.15 pm Keynote speech: Productive Archiving: Archival Practices by Artists. Ernst van Alphen, Professor emeritus at Universiteit Leiden

4.15 | 4.35 pm Practical cases: El documento a través del arte: un recorrido por las representaciones de los documentos de archivo en las obras de la National Gallery (The document through art: a tour of the representations of archive documents in the works of the National Gallery). José Luís Bonal, Professor in the Faculty of Documentation and Communication Sciences, Universidad de Extremadura

4.35 | 5.35 pm Discussion panel. Discussion moderated by Mela Dávila, researcher, curator and consultant on art archives and artist’s publications. Participation of all the speakers in the afternoon session

5.35 | 5.45 pm Break

5.45 | 6.05 pm Into Sugar We Could Have Turned. Mireia c. Saladrigues, visual artist and researcher

6.05 | 6.15 pm Closings speech

18.40 pm Guided visit to the exhibition Anglada Camarasa. The premeditated archive