Archive/Counter-Archive Conference

Archive/ Counter-Archive
Exploring relations between contemporary art and the archive.

Archive/ Counter-Archive is a two-day conference with associated exhibition and web project offering fresh thinking and dialogues on the current relations between contemporary art and the archive. The focus of the conference has been shaped by the ways artists are responding to the archive, but also by the histories - and future possibilities - of practices of collecting and drawing.

Keynote speakers include internationally renowned thinkers and curators in the field, Professor Okwui Enwezor and Dr Charles Merewether.

Archive/ Counter-Archive takes as its subject the relation between contemporary art and the archive. The impetus for the conference is a set of questions shaped by historical and cultural conditions in Australia, as well as contemporary art practice internationally.

For further information visit www.artdes.monash.edu.au/aca

In addition to the conference of 12 speakers and discussion sessions, Archive/ Counter-Archive presents satellite events and an exhibition at the additional Prato venue, Dryphoto.

Presenters include: Azra Aksamija (Bosnia and Herzegovina/ USA), Rossella Biscotti (Italy), Jordan Baseman (UK), Sonia Boyce (UK), Victoria Lynn (Australia), Avis Newman (UK), and Tom Nicholson (Australia).