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An Imagined Archive of Institutional Memory – A Visual Essay on the Artwork of Parragirls
Author(s) -
Hibberd Lily,
Djuric Bonney,
Lewis Nina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/cura.12357
Subject(s) - contest , agency (philosophy) , visual arts , institution , conversation , hobby , printmaking , portfolio , state (computer science) , art , sociology , media studies , art history , painting , political science , social science , computer science , law , communication , algorithm , financial economics , economics
For this focus section of Curator , Lily Hibberd with Bonney Djuric and Nina Lewis revisit their research paper and workshop presented at the ‘Archive as Art & The Imagined Archive’ 14th Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) conference in 2017. Parragirls – former residents of an Australian state‐run child welfare institution – have deployed art as a device to contest both public memory and the official institutional record. Structured as an annotated portfolio and conversation between the three contributors, this visual essay reflects on a range of artistic strategies, including experimental printmaking, that interrogate and activate the living archive of Parramatta Girls Home through the women’s own testimony, memory and creative agency.