Socially Engaged and Activist Art: new forms of archival practice in the contemporary art museum

[16:15]萨拉·海利特这项博士研究旨在研究当代艺术博物馆中通过规划和展示积极分子和社会参与艺术所留下的痕迹的性质、意义和可收藏性。这项研究将植根于泰特艺术交流中心的工作，该中心与艺术家和社区（尤其是那些在博物馆中代表性不足的群体）合作，探索艺术和社会在哪里相遇。虽然这些合作过程不一定会进入泰特的艺术收藏，但它们创造并留下了痕迹。这些痕迹包括有形的物质对象和无形的过程和经历；它们是这些相互作用和干预的记录，但不被泰特既定的记录保存和档案结构所认可。这使得这些项目处于不状态，这些练习时刻处于危险之中。新形式的档案实践以记录者为中心，拒绝“认知总体性”，支持多元知识生产和档案之外的物质性模式。这项研究的一个重要部分将包括探索当行动主义成为一件艺术品并可能被博物馆收购时，我们失去了什么和得到了什么。这些痕迹，如果被存档，能延长行动主义的寿命吗？如果我们把泰特交换馆的档案看作是一个活的档案，那么这些材料能否继续被使用、研究和重新激活，成为一种新的行动主义形式？被谁，怎么做，在哪里？

[16:15] Sarah HaylettThis doctoral research seeks to examine the nature, significance and collectibility of the traces left by programming and exhibiting activist and socially engaged art in the contemporary art museum. .This research will be rooted in the work of Tate Exchange who collaborate with artists and communities (especially those underrepresented in museums) to explore where art and society meet. While these collaborative processes do not necessarily make it into Tate's art collection, they create and leave traces. These traces include tangible material objects and intangible processes and experiences; they are records of these interactions and interventions, but are not recognised by Tate's established recordkeeping and archival structures. This leaves these items statusless and these moments of practice at risk. New forms of archival practice centre the record maker, rejecting 'epistemic totality' in favour of a model of pluralistic knowledge production and materiality outside of the archive. An important part of this research will include exploring what is lost and gained when activism becomes an artwork and is potentially fixed upon acquisition into the museum. Can the traces, if archived, extend the life of the activism? If we think of the Tate Exchange archive as a living archive, can the material continue to be used, researched and reactivated as new forms of activism? And by whom, how and where?