CREAM PhD researcher Lucy Rogers presents her paper ‘Thinking Through’ the Artist’s Archive. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, a complex case study at Reframing the Archive, International Conference on Photography and Visual Culture on Thursday 26 September 2024. 

In this paper, Rogers uses the example of Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s archive as a complex case study through which to explore the many challenges and possibilities of researching, curating and keeping for future posterity an artist’s archive, which is continually in flux.

Titled Archival Practices in Contemporary Visual Arts: A Model and a Source, the conference aims to gather contributions on archival art and archival research for contemporary art, considering them as two complementary aspects of a broad and complex field of investigation. On one hand, the archive serves as a structural model for artists from diverse backgrounds and engaged in various fields. On the other hand, authors’ archives provide essential resources for historiographical studies on contemporary art, offering valuable information and direct testimonies. This dual focus necessitates engagement not only with the present but also with a relatively short historical span.

Find out more about the conference programme here.