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.
Archive/Counter-Archive's statement for the 2022 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
The Indigenous Archives Gathering is scheduled for October 17-18th and will be held at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. The central focus of the Gathering will be media art archives and related intangible archives that exist within a range of situations: traditional memory institutions, artist-run centres, communities, homes/private life
Where Were You in ‘92? is an exhibition by A/CA Artist-in-Residence, Pamila Matharu. It is being held at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, ON and is open from July 30, 2022 until December 4th, 2022.
"Archives-in-the-Making, Vulnerable Communities and Migration" is a roundtable discussion between several archival organizations from around the world that members of the A/CA team (Janine Marchessault, Michael Zryd, and Antoine Damiens) participated in. The article is published in a recent special issue of the film studies journal L'Atalante that is focused on the topics of film archives and migration.
A mail art project by Hazel Meyer and Cait McKinney that draws on VIVO’s archives to enliven Vancouver’s histories of porn, feminism, and censorship.
Are you planning on presenting research related to A/CA at the 2023 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (April 12-15th, 2023, Denver, Colorado)? Please let us know by August 8th! We would love to coordinate paper proposals and constitute A/CA-related panel(s) (see CFP below).