#archivalmaterials

[alniinod-blog]

Courtesy @ibrahimmahama3 ——— A STRAIGHT LIME THROUGH THE CARCASS OF HISTORY 1649. Archival materials and public school cabinets. As part of GHANA FREEDOM at the 58 Venice Biennale . Curated by Nana Ofori Atta Ayim and designed by Sir David Adjaye. Photo by David Levene. Installed by my very good friend @ben_okantey Forever Grateful. #venicebiennale #contemporaryart #art #architecture #davidadjaye #sccatamale #blaxtarlineskumasi #ghana #ibrahimmahama #artschool #decay #mesh #smell #food #fish #archivalmaterials #jamestown #accra #coastline #smokingfish #ghanarailways #labour #form #unseenlabour #construction #ghanapavilion #ghanainvenice https://www.instagram.com/p/BxfUGVcAuob/?igshid=1iocqhhiwpdp6

[quarantinetales]

April 4th, 2020

What we need now? Relax, meditation, contact with nature, stimulating positive image. August 2011, with my sister Chiarastella Seravalle, we did an on the road holiday all around Corsica on a motorcycle and we arrived back on a tow truck on the 15th of August and a end-of-life moto. It was a wonderful holiday, I forced my sister to a very basic and naturalistic style of life: sleeping where it was possible, even wilderness camping, no foam mattress, or for free in houses of unknown people. At that time I had with me a small videocamera, no smartphone. I've started to collect videos for a nostalgic moment, recording peaceful and relaxing places and sounds in order to use them like pills of welfare. Last summer I uploaded it on my youtube channel in a playlist of ASMR. Their sounds have a beneficial influence on my mind.

[wanderingaffect]

Staten Island Dance Theatre, 1973. Local dance history through graphic design and materiality. #statenislanddanceproject #sidanceproject #statenislanddancehistory #statenislanddancetheatre #archivalmaterial #dancearchive #statenislandhistory #dancehistory #takecontrolofyourarchive #visitstatenisland #seeyourcity #statenisland #dance #nycdance #dancenyc https://www.instagram.com/p/B5F-5m0BVEsAMcNSWz3UIBlO1JhKh4Xx09hKHw0/?igshid=xkbkx9ubddi1

[trascapades]

🎨#ArtIsAWeapon 📣#NewExhibit 👨🏿‍🎨"Charles White: A Retrospective" on view @themuseumofmodernart October 7, 2018 - January 13, 2019. www.moma.org ____________________ “Art must be an integral part of the struggle…It can’t simply mirror what’s taking place … It must ally itself with the forces of liberation.” - Charles White.

From MoMA: Charles White: A Retrospective is the first major museum survey devoted to the artist in over 30 years. The exhibition charts White’s full career—from the 1930s through his premature death in 1979—with over 100 works, including #drawings, #paintings, #prints, #photographs, #illustratedbooks, #recordcovers and #archivalmaterials. ____________________ Over the course of his four-decade career, White’s commitment to creating powerful images of African Americans—what his gallerist and, later, White himself described as “images of dignity”—was unwavering. Using his virtuoso skills as a #draftsman, #printmaker, and #painter, White developed his style and approach over time to address shifting concerns and new audiences. In each of the cities in which he lived over the course of his career—Chicago, New York, and, finally, Los Angeles—White became a key figure within a vibrant #community of #creativeartists, #writers, and #activists. ____________________

(📷 of Charles White’s drawing of #artist #activist Harry Belafonte reposted from @suzukiinthecity)

#BlackArt #BlackArtists #MoMA #ArtAndTheCity #TraScapades #BlackGirlArtGeeks #ArtIsAWeapon (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/BodbZ_SHI80/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1g8yvd6dlfvjj

[debibanerjee]

‘Scoring the Archive Workshop’, collaboration with Kirsty Hendry 

Glasgow School of Art, 22 February and 1 March 2017 

[alanlomaxpathfinder]

Alan Lomax Collection in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress

If your research or curiosity take you beyond the previously outlined materials, the Library of Congress--where Alan Lomax himself worked--holds an extensive collection of his papers and recordings.  While some of the materials are posted online, especially in relation to Woody Guthrie, there remains no substitute for experiencing the materials in person if you have the means.  Lomax collected an incomprehensible number of recordings and this repository is essential not only to understanding the folklorist, but also developments in American culture in general.

Alan Lomax Collection. Archive of American Folklife Center. U.S. Library of Congress.

[alanlomaxpathfinder]

Association for Cultural Equity - Sound Recording Archive

This extensive digital collection of Alan Lomax's recordings, while overwhelming in its quantity, remains an invaluable resource covering the scope of his later career.  The "Sound Collections Guide" proves to be the best way to parse this archive, but unfortunately it is only possible to play one song at a time--this collection would benefit greatly from a jukebox model that would allow the user to get lost in the plethora of music Lomax recorded.  Despite these shortcomings, this internet archive succeeds in making folk culture available, which is just what Lomax would have wanted.

"Sound Recordings" Association for Cultural Equity. Accessed on: September 17, 2013. http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp.