The Archive is Creative: Artistic Interventions

The Archive is Creative: Artistic Interventions brings together artists, curators, and scholars to examine how creative methods reshape what archives reveal in a colonial present. Working across varied materials—from moving images and objects to everyday, tactile practices—participants explore how archives are constructed, how access is negotiated, and how shifting one’s point of view can unsettle inherited narratives. Emphasizing process over product, the symposium highlights how wandering, attention, duration, and material experimentation open new possibilities for engaging with historical records and imagining future forms of archival practice.