Event overview
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Join us in A Wet Archive as Esmeralda Valencia Lindström discusses her research and exhibition to explore resonances with work by Marie Theresa Crick and others round the table.
This is a research exchange event organised by Special Collections and Archives to highlight innovative artistic research looking at the Women's Art Library collection. This informal discussion begins with ideas raised by Esmeralda Valencia Lindström's research for the exhibition, A Wet Archive, and her discovery or recovery of the hidden life of the archive's materials and its built environment as manifested through fungi and attempts at tracing water damage through the Rutherford building.
The result is a uniquely live display and a new perspective on the archive as a not-so-static entity, giving us the space to consider what resists preservation as well what is overlooked in these spaces of recorded histories. Esmeralda will be joined by Marie Theresa Crick (PhD Visual Cultures) who will introduce her research and the overlaps with A Wet Archive.
Marie Theresa Crick’s research positions a ‘Feminine-to-Come’, a radical within but ‘not yet’, to offer potentials to reorientate what was transmitted, in forms of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ within the Irish Catholic mother and daughter relation, to the present by the displacement of women from the Republic of Ireland to London, in the late 1950s. Thus, seeking to illuminate ‘the livedness’ in the Irish Catholic maternal imagination through a methodology that flows with a re-reading of Luce Irigaray’s shared air, Marie Theresa’s film practice of watery filmic bodies of breath and movement in collective embodied research spaces, to inhabit a reorientation of ‘fixed’ archives of the Irish State and Catholicism. Marie Theresa will be thinking about the potentials of fluidity in a ‘wet archive’ and especially the Irish book which was found by the water in Esmeralda Valencia Lindström’s exhibition.
The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by Sophie J Williamson titled "Architectures of Inverted Bodies" available from the exhibition as recommended reading.
The exhibition is displayed on two sites in the Rutherford Building, in the Special Collections & Archives entrance on the ground floor and the Buchi Emecheta space on the second floor, weekdays between 10:00 am and 06:00 pm until 26 January 2023.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Dec 2023 |
2:00pm - 3:00pm All welcome |
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