OPEN ARCHIVE

“Open Archive is a temporary art space and curatorial project for the facilitation of temporal and performative arts projects. Evolving through a program of events, performances and exhibitions, Open Archive will be a site for research and experimentation running from September 2011 through February 2012. Open Archive is co-directed by Jared Davis and Helen Grogan.

Alongside projects facilitated in the Open Archive space, participating artists and guest curators are invited to contribute to a comprehensive ‘archive’ of activities and discussion. This ‘archive’ will incorporate diverse methods of art documentation, continually reassessing the potentials and inevitable failures of this documentative process when applied to live, time-based arts.”

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Images [L to R on slider]: Emile Zile, ‘OMG_sisyphus’, 30 November 2011, Photo: Jo Duck; Open Archive. Photo: Laura Grogan; Open Archive Launch, 15 September 2011. Photo: Alice Glenn; Open Archive Launch, 15 September 2011. Photo: Laura Grogan; Francis Plagne band (Francis Plagne, James Rushford, Judith Hamann, Alexander Garsden) at Open Archive Launch, 15 September 2011. Photo: Laura Grogan; Francis Plagne band (Francis Plagne, James Rushford, Judith Hamann, Alexander Garsden) at Open Archive Launch, 15 September 2011. Photo: Laura Grogan; Mark Barrage at Open Archive Launch, 15 September 2011. Photo: Laura Grogan; Ardi Gunawan at Open Archive, 20-23 October 2011. Photo: Alice Glenn; ” “; ” “; ” “.