Tool workshop/ So, Where Were We Now? / ALTOS 6
Heritage institutions increasingly exhibit archival imagery outside the museum. In this workshop delegates will analyse recent examples of digital and physical displays that show historic images beyond the gallery- in public spaces.
The workshop will begin with a discussion of a conventional approach – the display images of place at the point and orientation at which they were originally taken, ‘curating’ place by juxtaposing the historic view with the present, emphasising differences between the then and the now and fixing the relationship between a place and its past.
Delegates will examine the rationale behind image selection, choice of location and ask whether these displays are inextricably bound-up with the administrative systems and institutions and are inevitably weighted towards a received historical explanation. They will also consider the psycho-social effects of the ‘historicization’ of place and the consequences of a present that is ‘overlaid’ with images of the past.
The workshop uses an archive of images of Buenos Aires to explore alternatives approaches and to look for new strategies that might include competing narratives of the same place and/or viewpoints that are not held within institutional collections.
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