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What if your archive is already an artwork?
Unarchiving
CIFRA is a global platform connecting people with contemporary media art practices. We invite you to join Unarchiving, an online conversation with three incredible artists working with found footage and archival materials. This MeetUp is a space to rethink the archive, and what it can become in your hands.
Zoom Meetup, 20 MAY
6 PM CEST / 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET
6 PM CEST / 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET
free Registration
An archive is never neutral. It determines what enters history and what disappears, whose stories are kept and whose are lost.
Artists have long known how to read against the archive. They simulate, remix, and fabricate archival forms to reveal how memory, trust, and authority are constructed.
Artists have long known how to read against the archive. They simulate, remix, and fabricate archival forms to reveal how memory, trust, and authority are constructed.
Join our free meetup, and you get how
Artists work with memory, personal archives, and found footage
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Archival materials can become a starting point for artistic practice
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How to recognize your own materials as something you can work with
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Art can reshape the way we think history, identity, and personal experience
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Archival materials can become a starting point for artistic practice
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How to recognize your own materials as something you can work with
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Art can reshape the way we think history, identity, and personal experience
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You don’t need to be an artist to join. You only need curiosity, and perhaps something you have been holding onto
You don’t need to be an artist to join. You only need curiosity, and perhaps something you have been holding onto
Photo credit: Aris Rammos
Meet the speakers
Across film, research, and curatorial practice, they work with archives as living material. What is recorded is not taken as given, but reinterpreted, reassembled, and questioned.
Bill
Morrison
Morrison
USA
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker working with archival and decayed footage. His films use damaged and forgotten images to make time visible. His recent project, Incident (2023), draws on surveillance recordings. He describes his work as a form of revision, a re-seeing of images originally recorded by anonymous others.
Photo credit: Aris Rammos
Masha
Godovannaya
Godovannaya
RU / MX
Experimental filmmaker, researcher, and curator working across diary film, queer theory, decolonial methodologies, and post-Soviet studies. In her practice, autoethnographic cinema functions both as a research method and as a form of personal and political articulation.
Photo credit: Anastasia Soboleva
Rafał
Morusiewicz
Morusiewicz
AT
Vienna-based artist, curator, and researcher working with found material across film, print, and textile. Their practice moves through collage and experimental cinema, combining analogue and digital techniques into site-specific installations and performances.
This meetup is for you if you
Feel that your personal memory or archive could matter, but are not sure how to work with it
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Curious how artists turn documents, images, and footage into art
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Want to explore new ways of thinking about storytelling, identity, and history
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Looking for an approach to contemporary art that feels accessible and personal
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Curious how artists turn documents, images, and footage into art
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Want to explore new ways of thinking about storytelling, identity, and history
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Looking for an approach to contemporary art that feels accessible and personal
free Registration
Unarchiving
Join our online meetup, invite friends, meet new people, and get a chance to ask your questions
Zoom Meetup, 20 MAY
6 PM CEST / 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET
6 PM CEST / 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET
free Registration
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