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Cultures d'arxiu
(octubre - noviembre de 2000
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona)
- Recorrido
- Documentos
- Guía
Cultures d´arxiu:
memòria, identitat, identificació
(julio - septiembre 2002 Universitat de València. La Nau)
- Recorrido
- Boletín:
solicita nuestro boletín nº1 (gratuito, incluir dirección)
Culturas de archivo: fondos y nuevos documentos
(febrero - marzo 2003 Universidad de Salamanca. Palacio Abrantes)
- Recorrido
- Boletín:
solicita nuestro boletín nº2 (gratuito, incluir dirección)
Taller: arte, exposición, memoria
(octubre 2003. UPC, ETSAB. Barcelona)
Taller: arte, exposición, memoria II
(octubre 2004. UPC, ETSAB. Barcelona)
Culturas de archivo IV: representaciones
Febrero-abril 2005
Espacio-archivo
Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de Prado
Autovía Puente Colgante s/n
Fondo Ángel Ferrant
Patio Herreriano
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español
Jorge Guillén, 6
Sala de Referencia Planos y Dibujos
Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid
Chancillería, 4
Organización y producción: Junta de Castilla y León
Taller/Worshop: Culturas de archivo
Septiembre/September 2005
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Escola Tècnica Superior
d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
- Visita al archivo districte Sants-Monjuic 28 septiembre 2005
Octubre/October 17-23 2005
KUNSTAKADEMIET I TRODHEIM
Fakultet for arkitektur og billedkunst
Lectures and workshop: Archive Cultures
Photogalleries:
- Lecture
-Temporary Library
- Visiting Legal Museum
- Visting Stadtarchiv
- Working on reference room
Participación en SEMINARIO DOCUMENTALIDADES. CGAC.
14 octubre 2006
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Participación en el seminario "La imagen fantasma". Barcelona, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 28 noviembre 2006
Participación en el simposio internacional "Revistas y Guerra". MNCARS, enero 2007
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Ideas recibidas
Un vocabulario para la cultura artística contemporánea
Curso-programa de conferencias
MACBA Octubre/October 2008
Archivo: el acceso al saber/poder y las alternativas a la exposición
ALLAN SEKULA.
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Conversaciones abiertas Dictadura, Arte y Archivo
Casa Amèrica Catalunya. c/ Còrsega, 299. Barcelona
7/8/9 OCTUBRE 2008 www.americat.net
Programa
Libro Santiago Roqueta. Co-edición y concepto.
El libro constituye un montaje de documentos imágenes y rastros dejados por S.R. en su actividad profesional y docente.
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AIAN
The AIAN (Archive of the Anonymous Narrated Image) was born from the conviction that photographic practise goes far beyond what a camera does, or what is done with a camera. Although etymologically the term photography defines it as "writing with light", once the picture has been taken, the picture has a long life ahead of itself, where photographic practise â and not photography â leaves a rich trace of operations which range from the decision to develop a roll or not to do so, all the way up to the narrative which uses the picture as a medium, passing through anything which can be done to a picture or with a picture: crop, glue, keep, organise in a shoebox or an album, wipe out, scratch, enlarge, show, comment, destroy, etc., many of these verbs would become part of this photographic practise.
The first section of the project focuses on the images of the Spanish Civil War, but not so much in war images, as in the family picture, and in the way it was present â and remains present â as a vestige of an era when photographers were exclusively camera professionals, and the picture an individual could own were normally very few. Few, or none.
This possession of a few pictures is a fundamental point for AIAN: in the wake of the current massive propagation of the family picture through the home camera, we can still find members of the last generation that experienced the photograph as a specific phenomenon, and which, mainly, has remained removed from this massive propagation, preferring the physical touch of photographic paper as a precious object.
Studying this second photographic practise â which consists in the private, individual management of the image â is a rich and fascinating endeavor, as it is to study why this kind picture, and why is the other kind disappearing. But, above all, it is a transversal approach to a conflict which avoids an erosion of its historical complexity: all the owners of images that take part are exactly that: owners of wartime images they keep, or not, said images and who are open to provide a testimony on how they have used these photographs, how did they come across them, what has taken place around these pictures, or why did they disappear, etc.
The AIAN is an archive of all that takes place after the shutter opens and closes, told by the owners of the images. It reflects the quantity of behaviours that an individual develops around these pieces of paper which seem to reflect reality: the dedication, the framing, sending it by mail, destroying the images, or, why not, the very absence of the image.
AIAN develops my stepping aside from the already known narrative, and slipping through the interstices of history, in that which apparently lacks any real importance and which, nevertheless, reveals a lot about what happened. There are many interview projects, about subjects such as the Civil War or World War II or the Holocaust. There are websites where one can access interviews with survivors who talk about their experiences. But these spaces tend to be places of what is already known, where what is already known is repeated over and over again. There is nothing there to surprise us. We come to realise, over and over again, the perversity we already know, there is nothing previously untold in these testimonials that recite history. They eliminate the historical complexity of the discourse, a complexity which might be recovered if we change the motivation of the enquiry, if we set out to search for the small photographic story between the lines of which we can see the tragedy or the living conditions and the actual state of memory or amnesia of a witness who is not dehumanised in front of the camera.
All this could have easily taken the form of a documentary or a film narration, but, nevertheless, the archive, or the archive-like organisation of the interviews, allows us â as if it were an album of sorts â to see each entry in the register, each face, each testimonial one by one, individually. It also allows us to work carefully on each individual interview, on its editing, its treatment as an individual case study, as if it didn't need the rest of the archive to produce meaning, but it is nevertheless enriched by it. Also, the unfinished aspect of any archive is also present in this decision. There are always more cases to add, and when one generation is absent, there will be another one which will inherit the pictures one way or another, will manipulate them, frame them, and give them new meanings according to the idea of photography as a complex photographic practise, which grows over anything done with the picture or around it.
Nota: This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies
Producer: Archive Cultures Project. Jorge Blasco Gallardo.
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: archive; memory; image; photograhy; interview; civil war; narrated
Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Hosted at www.archive.org
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