User:Inge Hoonte/Notes Dusan

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Dusan: living archive Eastern-European art and media history

Simon: How do you add value? Some of it IS known in the West. Dusan: Crucial = location within art history. Connecting movements. Simon: How to map it so it adds value? So you see relationships for example betw players in the field. Renee: You could share archiving process editorially as well to be more complete. Include events, parties, clubs, relational trees. To really map what went on. Simon: look at relational research for the rock scene for example, people who played in various bands and how they were connected and really shaped the movement.

Kenny Goldsmith, Edward Shanken regarding concerns.

S+R issues of archiving in general. Libraries. If you publish in UK, you have to send a copy to the royal library. Simon: what's your curatorial angle? Or is it just anything you can get your hands on? How do you organize and create meaning?

Renee: Charles Wilson Peele. Curiosities. His system of taxonomy was well-known and outstanding.

Daan: look at what other archives might lack that you want to improve with yours.