Renata Cervetto: Archives in art and education – what, how and for whom?
During this workshop we will reflect on art and education archives in museums, galleries and other cultural spaces. The lack of habit in generating these materials speaks of a particular situation around the work of art mediators and their lack of visibility within the institution. Some of the questions that revolve around this issue are: Why create an art and education archive? Who would be its potential users? How can we manage, from within and as part of our roles, an archive that accounts not only for the projects, but also for the effects that were involved in each of them? What limitations do we find in doing that? How can we account for the way in which we worked with the community or group? How can we fight the lack of writing in education departments? During the first part of the workshop, some examples of this type of archives will be shared in order to visualise their possibilities in response to different contexts (institutional, artistic, community or public space). The second part will consist of a collective exercise where participants are to be split into smaller groups to propose an archive for their personal working contexts.