Earlier this week, Concordia University Press announced "Counter-Archives: Media and Material Practices," a new book series that is being co-edited by Stacy Allison-Cassin, Monika Kin Gagnon, and Janine Marchessault.
This exciting new book which is releasing in April 2023 and is now available for pre-order, includes chapters written by A/CA members Claudia Sicondolfo, Karine Bertrand, Julie Nagam, Carla Taunton, and Brenda Longfellow.
This volume, co-edited by Lee Carruthers and Charles Tepperman and published by McGill-Queen's University Press, features several essays written by A/CA members about Canadian films, filmmakers, and film contexts since the year 2000.
Disabled film archivist and archival accessibility advocate Michael Marlatt leads this Zoom-hosted collaborative workshop that examines the current state of accessibility within the archive for those who have a disability, chronic illness, or are neurodivergent.
We are very excited to announce that Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After, the book A/CA Project Manager Antoine Damiens recently co-edited with Marijke de Valck on the impact of Covid-19 on international film festivals, has just been published in open access with Palgrave Macmillan.
A newly digitized open-access version of Allan Klusaček and Ken Morrison's 1992 edited collection, A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art and Contemporary Cultures, has been rereleased alongside World AIDS Day / Day With(out) Art. The book originally came out of the cultural interventions at the 1989 Montreal International AIDS Conference and significantly contributed to the literature about cultural resistance and HIV/AIDS activism within Canada.
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to share the recording of Johanna Laub's Working Papers Series talk, Archives In/As Ruins: Moving Image Art And The Anarchaeology Of Archival Debris, which took place on Tuesday, November 29, 2022.
Are you planning on presenting research related to A/CA at the Annual Conference of the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (May 27-29th, 2023, York University, Toronto)? Please let us know by December 16th! We would love to coordinate groups of individual paper proposals into pre-constituted A/CA-related panels.
We are pleased to be able to share a recording of a panel from the FSAC 2022 conference titled "Counter-Archives as Living Archives: Entanglement, Stewardship, and Restoration," where Janine Marchessault, Debbie Ebanks Schlums, Ryan Conrad, and Rebecca Gordon all presented papers.
Earlier this month, in collaboration with imagineNATIVE, we had the pleasure and privilege of co-hosting the Indigenous Archives Gathering. As this event has been roughly three years in the making, we would like to share some photos and a brief recap, as well as to sincerely thank all of the speakers, participating artists, volunteers, and attendees.
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to share the recording of Theo Xenophontos's Working Papers Series Talk, Film as Mediator: Cultivating a Cypriot Canadian Community Audiovisual Media Archive, which took place on Tuesday, October 25, 2022.
The Indigenous Archives Gathering (October 17–18, 2022) will bring together Indigenous artists, film and media specialists, archivists, curators, Knowledge Keepers, Elders, memory workers and scholars from across Canada. Themes of traces and care will be explored through three perspectives 1) access, 2) engagement, 3) activation of archives from different First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities as well as regions.