Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2023.2166473
Jade C. Godsall
{"title":"Trinity College Library Dublin: a descriptive catalogue of manuscripts containing Middle English and some Old English","authors":"Jade C. Godsall","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2023.2166473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2023.2166473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"44 1","pages":"166 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45020213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2023.2166474
Anthony Smith
{"title":"Records of the Jesus Guild in St Paul’s Cathedral, c.1450-1550: an edition of Oxford, Bodleian MS Tanner 221, and associated material","authors":"Anthony Smith","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2023.2166474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2023.2166474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"44 1","pages":"162 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45221411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2022.2149480
Alix Robinson
ABSTRACT Egyptological archives preserve evidence of Ancient Egyptian cultures, and historic Egyptian participation in archaeological fieldwork. This paper grew out of conversations with Egyptological archivists, who expressed concerns that their archives were under-used by both archaeological and Egyptian researchers. It provides an overview of current use and users, supported by evidence from literature and by a survey of a representative selection of institutions. Online research and interviews contribute further to the analysis of current Egyptological archive practice. As these archives are largely colonial in origin, this includes investigation of the effects of their formation, location and description. While most chose to remain anonymous, Egyptian interview subjects made an invaluable contribution to this research. Findings confirmed that, while Egyptological archives are increasingly used for original research, they are under-used both for research preparatory to fieldwork, and by Egyptian researchers. Survey respondents indicated a belief that the best way to address under-use and inclusivity was by providing scanned resources online. However, interviews and online research revealed that raising visibility and knowledge of these archives may be more effective.
{"title":"Preserving Ancient Egyptian cultural heritage: an examination of the role of egyptological archives","authors":"Alix Robinson","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2022.2149480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2022.2149480","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Egyptological archives preserve evidence of Ancient Egyptian cultures, and historic Egyptian participation in archaeological fieldwork. This paper grew out of conversations with Egyptological archivists, who expressed concerns that their archives were under-used by both archaeological and Egyptian researchers. It provides an overview of current use and users, supported by evidence from literature and by a survey of a representative selection of institutions. Online research and interviews contribute further to the analysis of current Egyptological archive practice. As these archives are largely colonial in origin, this includes investigation of the effects of their formation, location and description. While most chose to remain anonymous, Egyptian interview subjects made an invaluable contribution to this research. Findings confirmed that, while Egyptological archives are increasingly used for original research, they are under-used both for research preparatory to fieldwork, and by Egyptian researchers. Survey respondents indicated a belief that the best way to address under-use and inclusivity was by providing scanned resources online. However, interviews and online research revealed that raising visibility and knowledge of these archives may be more effective.","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"44 1","pages":"53 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46059461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2023.2166475
R. Wragg
{"title":"Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and connections","authors":"R. Wragg","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2023.2166475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2023.2166475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"44 1","pages":"169 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43845692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2022.2149481
Joanna Baines
ABSTRACT Literature relating to education sessions in special collections has been prevalent in the field since the early 2000s. Following on from the publication of the ACRL-RBMS-SAA Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy published in the USA in 2018, this paper applies the guidelines to survey and interview responses to explore the key skills gained by undergraduates using special collections and the barriers to skills’ acquisition throughout their degree programmes. Contextualizing the results through US and UK literature, this paper argues that special collections literacy can be embedded into interdisciplinary undergraduate curricula which in turn may help special collections advocate for increased resources to broaden their education programmes. It establishes a picture of current special collections education for UK universities including range, methods of delivery and assessment styles.
{"title":"Establishing special collections literacy for undergraduate students: an investigation into benefits and barriers of access","authors":"Joanna Baines","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2022.2149481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2022.2149481","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Literature relating to education sessions in special collections has been prevalent in the field since the early 2000s. Following on from the publication of the ACRL-RBMS-SAA Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy published in the USA in 2018, this paper applies the guidelines to survey and interview responses to explore the key skills gained by undergraduates using special collections and the barriers to skills’ acquisition throughout their degree programmes. Contextualizing the results through US and UK literature, this paper argues that special collections literacy can be embedded into interdisciplinary undergraduate curricula which in turn may help special collections advocate for increased resources to broaden their education programmes. It establishes a picture of current special collections education for UK universities including range, methods of delivery and assessment styles.","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"44 1","pages":"8 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47394535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2023.2166471
Rachel MacGregor
members and benefactors. The entire business of providing these services is vividly documented by the annual accounts in the present edition, while the ambience in which it took place is also very well evoked. The annual account of 1518, for instance, includes a striking illustration of a publicity event. The entry records a payment of 13 shillings: “to the 6 weites with baners payntede, conisaunces enbrowderede with Jhūs, goyng alle the stretes and subbarbes of London pleying with theire instrumentes to gif warnyng and knowledge to the people of the saide Fraternite for the saide festes of Transfiguracione and Name of Jhu’, according to the saide ordenaunce 10s., and in rewarde 3s” (121). Reference is made to a bonfire staged to mark the eve of the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. Music had an important role in the liturgical celebration and the arrangements for making it are documented. A mass book was donated by the royal composer Robert Fayrfax. The accounts make available much detail about the employment of carpenters, glaziers, plasterers, metal workers, locksmiths, organ and vestment makers, and many other tradesmen and craftsmen. In this way, they are a valuable source of information about London trades, crafts, and professions in the reign of Henry VIII. It is recorded that an attorney in the Court of Common Pleas was employed. Since they are written in English, the accounts are rich in contemporary vernacular terminology. The language itself, though, is a somewhat colourless standard contemporary London English usage, and is thus unlikely to be of particular interest to scholars whose primary concern is with the variety of English linguistic and dialect form at the time. The Jesus Guild was dissolved in 1548 and, most unusually, refounded in 1556 during the reign of Mary Tudor, but it did not survive the accession of Elizabeth I. Its records, however, have survived and, now made readily accessible in this fine edition by Elizabeth New, they throw brilliant light upon secular religious life in London at the eve of the Reformation. The present volume, produced with the assistance of a grant from the Richard III and Yorkist History Trust, is a notable addition to the publications of the London Record Society.
成员和捐助者。本版的年度账目生动地记录了提供这些服务的整个业务，同时也很好地唤起了它发生的氛围。例如，1518年的年度账目包括一个引人注目的宣传活动插图。该条目记录了13先令的付款：“根据saide ordenaunce 10s和rewarde 3s，向6个有baners payntede的weites，conisaunces enbrowderede with Jhús，goyng alle stretes and subarbes of London pleying with their e instruments to gif warnyng and knowledge to The saide Fraternite people for The saide fests of Transfiguratione and Name of Jhu'的weites支付，”（121）。提到了为纪念耶稣圣名节前夕而举行的篝火晚会。音乐在礼拜庆典中发挥着重要作用，制作音乐的安排也有文献记载。皇家作曲家罗伯特·法尔法克斯捐赠了一本弥撒书。这些账目提供了许多关于木匠、玻璃匠、抹灰工、金属工人、锁匠、风琴师和法衣师以及许多其他商人和工匠的就业细节。通过这种方式，它们是亨利八世统治时期伦敦贸易、工艺和职业的宝贵信息来源。据记录，曾在普通诉讼法院聘请一名律师。由于它们是用英语写的，所以这些记述富含现代白话术语。然而，这种语言本身是一种有点无色的标准当代伦敦英语用法，因此不太可能引起当时主要关注英语语言和方言形式多样性的学者的特别兴趣。耶稣会于1548年解散，最不寻常的是，在1556年玛丽·都铎统治期间重新成立，但在伊丽莎白一世登基后，它没有幸存下来。然而，它的记录仍然存在，现在伊丽莎白·纽的这本精品版很容易查到，它们为宗教改革前夕伦敦的世俗宗教生活带来了光明。本卷是在理查三世和约克历史信托基金会的资助下制作的，是伦敦唱片协会出版物的一个显著补充。
{"title":"Sustainable Enterprise Strategies for Optimizing Digital Stewardship: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums","authors":"Rachel MacGregor","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2023.2166471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2023.2166471","url":null,"abstract":"members and benefactors. The entire business of providing these services is vividly documented by the annual accounts in the present edition, while the ambience in which it took place is also very well evoked. The annual account of 1518, for instance, includes a striking illustration of a publicity event. The entry records a payment of 13 shillings: “to the 6 weites with baners payntede, conisaunces enbrowderede with Jhūs, goyng alle the stretes and subbarbes of London pleying with theire instrumentes to gif warnyng and knowledge to the people of the saide Fraternite for the saide festes of Transfiguracione and Name of Jhu’, according to the saide ordenaunce 10s., and in rewarde 3s” (121). Reference is made to a bonfire staged to mark the eve of the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. Music had an important role in the liturgical celebration and the arrangements for making it are documented. A mass book was donated by the royal composer Robert Fayrfax. The accounts make available much detail about the employment of carpenters, glaziers, plasterers, metal workers, locksmiths, organ and vestment makers, and many other tradesmen and craftsmen. In this way, they are a valuable source of information about London trades, crafts, and professions in the reign of Henry VIII. It is recorded that an attorney in the Court of Common Pleas was employed. Since they are written in English, the accounts are rich in contemporary vernacular terminology. The language itself, though, is a somewhat colourless standard contemporary London English usage, and is thus unlikely to be of particular interest to scholars whose primary concern is with the variety of English linguistic and dialect form at the time. The Jesus Guild was dissolved in 1548 and, most unusually, refounded in 1556 during the reign of Mary Tudor, but it did not survive the accession of Elizabeth I. Its records, however, have survived and, now made readily accessible in this fine edition by Elizabeth New, they throw brilliant light upon secular religious life in London at the eve of the Reformation. The present volume, produced with the assistance of a grant from the Richard III and Yorkist History Trust, is a notable addition to the publications of the London Record Society.","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"44 1","pages":"163 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47691429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2022.2117688
Flore Janssen
ABSTRACT Decades of archives scholarship highlight colonial influences in archival collections as well as archival praxis. This research project explored the extent to which archives workers in the UK feel prepared and equipped to engage professionally with decolonizing archival practices. I conducted an anonymous online survey of workers across the archives sector to gauge their attitudes to different decolonizing practices in archives and their openness to participating in such initiatives. This article discusses and mobilizes my findings to suggest ways to encourage engagement with decolonizing practices across the sector. Participants were asked about their professional background and their initial understanding and feelings about archival decolonization before rating statements reflecting different decolonizing approaches and sharing final comments. Responses reflected a strong degree of openness towards different decolonizing practices, particularly increasing (digital) access and sharing ownership. There was support for change led from within the sector based on collaborative approaches, while there was some resistance to what was considered a politicizing of the issue. I propose ways forward centred on communication, collaboration, and peer support across the sector, particularly in exploring ways to accommodate decolonizing approaches into archival praxis.
{"title":"Engagement with decolonizing archival practices in the UK archives sector: a survey of archives workers’ attitudes","authors":"Flore Janssen","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2022.2117688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2022.2117688","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Decades of archives scholarship highlight colonial influences in archival collections as well as archival praxis. This research project explored the extent to which archives workers in the UK feel prepared and equipped to engage professionally with decolonizing archival practices. I conducted an anonymous online survey of workers across the archives sector to gauge their attitudes to different decolonizing practices in archives and their openness to participating in such initiatives. This article discusses and mobilizes my findings to suggest ways to encourage engagement with decolonizing practices across the sector. Participants were asked about their professional background and their initial understanding and feelings about archival decolonization before rating statements reflecting different decolonizing approaches and sharing final comments. Responses reflected a strong degree of openness towards different decolonizing practices, particularly increasing (digital) access and sharing ownership. There was support for change led from within the sector based on collaborative approaches, while there was some resistance to what was considered a politicizing of the issue. I propose ways forward centred on communication, collaboration, and peer support across the sector, particularly in exploring ways to accommodate decolonizing approaches into archival praxis.","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"44 1","pages":"95 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46006545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2022.2143333
Gabrielle Bex
ABSTRACT Social media has become an almost ubiquitous method of communication and engagement, not only in the information sector but right across the increasingly digitalized world. Likewise, it has played a large role in the development of fourth-wave feminism and in movements such as #YesAllWomen, #FreeTheNipple and #MeToo, as well as in calls for improvements to the representation of gender in media. This paper draws together both aspects in order to critique and reflect upon the current usage of social media as it pertains to the representation of gender in UK university libraries, archives and special collections. It explores the challenges of utilizing such media for academic institutions deeply rooted in discourses of authority and heteronormative patriarchal power. It uses a sample of social media posts to foreground and examine a number of successes and shortcomings, with discussions informed by critical theory. In particular, foundational texts of feminist theory, such as Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Black Looks: Race And Representation (1992) by bell hooks, are used to frame explorations of gender and intersectionality in university collections; ultimately seeking to discover how information professionals may better represent the diverse nature of their collections on social media platforms.
{"title":"The ghosts of old readers: social media, representation and gender in the information sector","authors":"Gabrielle Bex","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2022.2143333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2022.2143333","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social media has become an almost ubiquitous method of communication and engagement, not only in the information sector but right across the increasingly digitalized world. Likewise, it has played a large role in the development of fourth-wave feminism and in movements such as #YesAllWomen, #FreeTheNipple and #MeToo, as well as in calls for improvements to the representation of gender in media. This paper draws together both aspects in order to critique and reflect upon the current usage of social media as it pertains to the representation of gender in UK university libraries, archives and special collections. It explores the challenges of utilizing such media for academic institutions deeply rooted in discourses of authority and heteronormative patriarchal power. It uses a sample of social media posts to foreground and examine a number of successes and shortcomings, with discussions informed by critical theory. In particular, foundational texts of feminist theory, such as Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Black Looks: Race And Representation (1992) by bell hooks, are used to frame explorations of gender and intersectionality in university collections; ultimately seeking to discover how information professionals may better represent the diverse nature of their collections on social media platforms.","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"44 1","pages":"36 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49348669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2022.2139229
Helen Houghton-Foster
ABSTRACT Between May 2017 and September 2018, the Staffordshire Record Office and the University of Liverpool ran a collaborative volunteer research project titled Historic Flooding and Drought in Staffordshire, part of the AHRC funded project Learning from the Past — exploring historical archives to inform future activities. As researchers working closely within an archive service alongside staff and closely with volunteers, the Flooding and Drought project presented the opportunity to examine collaboration from multiple perspectives at once — the archive, the researcher or collaborating partner, and the volunteers. This paper argues that while not ideal for all archive volunteer activities (such as cataloguing), such projects can facilitate activities that an archive cannot achieve alone. Moreover, by providing stimulating and challenging activities, collaborations can capture volunteer interest, draw in new volunteers, develop volunteer skills and deepen volunteer loyalty and connection to the archive. Further, by working closely with the volunteers and valuing their experience and skills, the researcher can benefit from the support of those who have an intimate knowledge of the archive and the surrounding area. By fostering these collaborations and relationships, archives can provide valuable support for both their volunteers and researchers that might not otherwise be possible.
{"title":"‘It’s good for them to feel stretched’: collaborative volunteer projects at the Staffordshire Record Office","authors":"Helen Houghton-Foster","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2022.2139229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2022.2139229","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Between May 2017 and September 2018, the Staffordshire Record Office and the University of Liverpool ran a collaborative volunteer research project titled Historic Flooding and Drought in Staffordshire, part of the AHRC funded project Learning from the Past — exploring historical archives to inform future activities. As researchers working closely within an archive service alongside staff and closely with volunteers, the Flooding and Drought project presented the opportunity to examine collaboration from multiple perspectives at once — the archive, the researcher or collaborating partner, and the volunteers. This paper argues that while not ideal for all archive volunteer activities (such as cataloguing), such projects can facilitate activities that an archive cannot achieve alone. Moreover, by providing stimulating and challenging activities, collaborations can capture volunteer interest, draw in new volunteers, develop volunteer skills and deepen volunteer loyalty and connection to the archive. Further, by working closely with the volunteers and valuing their experience and skills, the researcher can benefit from the support of those who have an intimate knowledge of the archive and the surrounding area. By fostering these collaborations and relationships, archives can provide valuable support for both their volunteers and researchers that might not otherwise be possible.","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"44 1","pages":"120 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43920780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2022.2137119
Jennifer Branigan
ABSTRACT Archival art has been burgeoning for almost three decades and archival artists can be seen to engage with important sociopolitical questions concerning official history, collective memory, identity and social power through their use of archival records in art. Yet despite this, until recently there has been a lack of research into this important user group and their creative use of records in archival studies literature. This has slowly begun to change with a number of key studies emerging, however research in an Irish context remains significantly lacking. Through a case study of Irish visual and performing arts company ANU Productions, this research seeks to explore this tendency in Ireland – to examine its motivations, strategies of use, social impacts, and the role of collaboration with archivists within this. The research highlights the capacity of artists to transform records in artworks that, through a process of affective exchange and participatory practice, activate archives in ways that create considerable social impacts; opening archives to new and diverse users and creating spaces in which communities participate in the formation of their own historical narratives – to make visible those who have been hidden and heard those who have been silenced.
{"title":"Re-animation and interrogation: Irish visual and performing artists’ encounters with the archive","authors":"Jennifer Branigan","doi":"10.1080/23257962.2022.2137119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2022.2137119","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Archival art has been burgeoning for almost three decades and archival artists can be seen to engage with important sociopolitical questions concerning official history, collective memory, identity and social power through their use of archival records in art. Yet despite this, until recently there has been a lack of research into this important user group and their creative use of records in archival studies literature. This has slowly begun to change with a number of key studies emerging, however research in an Irish context remains significantly lacking. Through a case study of Irish visual and performing arts company ANU Productions, this research seeks to explore this tendency in Ireland – to examine its motivations, strategies of use, social impacts, and the role of collaboration with archivists within this. The research highlights the capacity of artists to transform records in artworks that, through a process of affective exchange and participatory practice, activate archives in ways that create considerable social impacts; opening archives to new and diverse users and creating spaces in which communities participate in the formation of their own historical narratives – to make visible those who have been hidden and heard those who have been silenced.","PeriodicalId":42972,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Records-The Journal of the Archives and Records Association","volume":"44 1","pages":"138 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44852117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：