23/07/2024
Join us for our third CHICAGO ARCHIVES + ARTISTS FESTIVAL, a three-day gathering that focuses on legacy preservation and archive nurturing for Chicago’s artists, curators, and cultural workers!
August 2-4, 2024
Experimental Station — Chicago, IL
FREE to Attend
Masks Required
Learn more and register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-chicago-archives-artists-festival-embodying-the-archive-tickets-911349519947?aff=oddtdtcreator
As the Festival will be happening in person for the first time since 2018, we are celebrating the opportunity to gather together by emphasizing the role of EMBODIMENT in archives, asking:
How can an archive be embodied in a space, a person, an object, a gathering, or a gesture?
How does one begin to understand an archive in order to embody it out in the world?
How does witnessing and engaging with archival materials make you feel (emotionally/bodily)?
What can a gathering/group do that an archive can’t and vice versa?
The festival will feature workshops, performances, panel discussions, archive unfurlings, ask-an-archivist sessions, and opportunities for artists to be introduced to archives and special collections from across the city. This is also a chance for artists to understand how they can connect with archives that preserve and care for the legacies, stories, and histories of artists, particularly those from Indigenous, diasporic, q***r, and disability communities, and the long list of voices that are shaping our city’s culture but are often neglected in mainstream and historically-rooted conversations around art.
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Image: A monochromatic graphic in shades of purple. Natasha Mijares is pictured writing and smiling at the DePaul Art Museum archives. Text reads: “Registration now open: Chicago Archives + Artists Festival, August 2nd – August 4th, 2024. Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone Ave., Chicago, IL.” Photo by Kristie Kahns.
