The artist, the archivist, a manila folder, and a server farm

About this episode

The episode explores the connections between artists and archivists, discussing themes of memory, grief, and the impact of digital technology on art.

Artists are well-known pack rats. If you conjure up the stereotypical artist's studio in your mind, it might well be a sort of wunderkammer of materials of creation, inspiration and detritus. Artists also use collections, archives and the more orderly functions of taxonomy as material and conceptual underpinning. What do artists and archivists have in common? What are you looking at? host Pip Stafford explores the tensions between the past, the now, the subjective and the relational as it rubs up against the real, human lives and inspirations of artists. Featuring artist Ashe , artist and archivist Samara McIlroy and Gabbee Stolp talking about grief, online scams, the unruliness of digital memory, and the Sydney Olympics. **Editor's apology: this episode states that in Ashe's exhibition This Too Shall Pass , the performer was replaced with an image of the artist. This is incorrect - the photograph is not of the artist.** To read more about Ashe's Contemporary Art Tasmania exhibition, This Too Shall Pass and read Sebastian Henry-Jones' B-Theory: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/this-too-shall-pass/ To read Gabbee Stolp's Inventory…

People in this episode

Guests: Ashe, Samara McIlroy, Gabbee Stolp

Topics covered

• artists
• archives
• taxonomy
• digital memory
• grief
• online scams

Keywords

• Sydney Olympics
• This Too Shall Pass
• Contemporary Art Tasmania

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Contemporary Art Tasmania, This Too Shall Pass, Happy Objects, The Affect Theory Reader, Archival Art: Memory Practices, Interventions, and Productions, The American Archivist

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