Laurence Rassel, An approach of a Feminist Active Archive, lecture, 2009. re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Laurence Rassel
An approach of a Feminist Active Archive

Laurence Rassel is curator, who started off at Constant, a non-for-profit organization based in Brussels, under the institutional radars, where she appropriated the ideas of open source (1997-2008). This experience later led her to imagine the opening of the archives of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, as director (2008-2015). Today, at the erg (école de recherche graphique) in Brussels, she is leading a project oriented towards the collective, process and transmission. She redefines the notion of authority and envisages an autonomous institution, where everyone has the possibility to act on the structure. Through her career as director and curator, Laurence Rassel leads lives, many at the same time, and strives to make everything she has missed possible. (2020)

This is an intervention based on concrete examples, works and investigations in progress which are tempt(ed) to build an archive as a multiple network of relations between objects of different formats with various objectives (comments, transcriptions, texts, rough sounds, recordings, creations) situated in a precise and ongoing context. I define the archive as active, and I will add, as feminist, meaning it is conceived as a process, as an invitation to re-read, to transmit knowledge and practices in a flow, in the rhythm of contemporary artistic and cultural practices.

Format
Audio Document

Document media
Lecture

Issue date
2009

To be seen in
re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 25.1.2009 / 12:45 pm