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I am an AHRC funded collaborative doctoral student in the Department of Information Studies at UCL and Tate. My PhD research ‘Socially Engaged Art: new forms of archival practice in the contemporary art museum’ is seeking to understand if and how community archiving methodologies might be used to collaboratively collect the traces of socially engaged art practices. Tate’s institutional recordkeeping does not yet reflect or make space for the voices of the communities and participants at the centre of programmes like Tate Exchange and Tate Collective. Therefore, my intention is to develop a participatory and collaborative community archiving toolkit with these groups to carve out a space for an equitable, non-extractive, post-custodial archive that centres these experiences over institutional documentation.
Prior to undertaking my PhD, I was the Archives and Records Management Researcher as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum at Tate. Here, my research focused on the boundaries between artwork, record and archive and I was responsible for developing a workflow and methodology for the collection and stewardship of artworks that generate archival material. I also developed a methodology for the reconstitution of lost and missing institutional records, and an in-house web archiving strategy in collaboration with the Time Based Media Conservation team. These published research outputs can be found here.
Upcoming Publications:
- [co-authored book chapter with Dr. Lucy Bayley, Dr. Cara Courage, Julia LePla, Professor Pip Laurenson, Dr. Hélia Marçal, and Kit Webb] ‘”That’s special, we’ll keep that”: a conversation about counter archiving and socially engaged practice at Tate Exchange’ in eds. S. Breakall and W. Russell, The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context, Routledge 2022
- Reconstituting Lost Records: Rebuilding the Intermedia Art Project, Archives and Records, Autumn 2022
- Beyond An Archival Impulse, Tate Research, Summer 2022
Supervisors
Rachel Noel (Convenor, Young Person’s Programme,Tate)
Contact
@haylett_s