Resolved to go through thick and thin;
He lifts the lid, there needs no more,
He smelled it all the time before.
-Jonathan Swift
Would that I
could lick the dust that like—I
think it’s—mu
sic will not reach
-Solmaz Sharif
Archive Night School (ANS) seeks to strengthen artists’ ability to identify, acquire, process, and make accessible archives of contemporary artmaking. This 8-week course will help us to aid and articulate LACA’s archival methods, as well as explore how knowledge is produced and valued. This course will increase our capacity to identify, care for, and share materials as well as the artists who create and access them.
ANS will engage an educational approach emphasizing conversational and participatory inquiry, while also building skills in archival techniques and conceptual considerations. We will focus on collective research and the production and diffusion of new knowledge.
Through a series of weekly prompts, readings, demonstrations, and conversations, ANS will focus on technical skills and tools of archiving and archival practices as art makers Throughout the program we will have the opportunity to develop, structure, and design individual digital collections using a web-based content management system.
ANS will consist of 8 consecutive weekly 2-hour sessions, 6:30- 8:30pm on Tuesday evenings from April 15 to June 3.