Friday, 9 February 2018 at 11:00 am – Friday, 9 February 2018 at 5:00 pm

Life on the Outskirts Symposium: inspiration and interventions in small creative archives

FREE. To register please email lotohsf@gmail.com

In association with the Arts & Humanities Research Council, Helen Storey Foundation and University of Leeds.

Life on the Outskirts is an AHRC-funded project between the University of Leeds, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Helen Storey Foundation. It seeks to find fresh creativity by revisiting past practice and uses the Helen Storey Foundation archive as both case study and inspiration, highlighting a pathway through the creative opportunities that archives can offer.

This symposium brings together academics who are interesting in, inspired by and/or working with small creative archives to explore the multiple challenges and opportunities faced by small creative archive collections and those working with them. Our keynote speaker will be Sue Breakell, Archivist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton Design Archives, whose research engages the nature, meaning and practice of archives and their creative uses in art and design contexts.

Presentations will explore how archives of small creative organisations, and small creative collections within archive settings, can offer multiple potential applications and the challenges, including: artistic interventions in creative archives; using creatives archives for teaching purposes; developing digital access in creative archives; engaging members of the public with creative archives; and the potential commercial mobilisation of creative archives.

For more information on the ‘Life on the Outskirts’ project, see: www.lifeontheoutskirts.org