September’s virtual coffee morning forms part of the Dublin Festival of History 2023 and will take place on Wednesday 27th September at 10.00am for half an hour.
This coffee morning will be hosted by Dr. Martina Mullaney and Dr. Tina Kinsella of the Feminist Art Making Histories Project (IADT). They will deliver a talk about Feminist Art Making Histories – Archiving as Feminist Practice.
Members of the public are welcome to join this coffee morning.
The ‘Feminist Art Making Histories’ (FAMH) research project is recording, curating, and archiving the oral histories and associated ephemera of feminist artists in Ireland and the UK from the 1970s. Once complete the FAMH archive will be housed in perpetuity in the Digital Repository of Ireland. The data FAHM is collecting has, to date, been neither rigorously created, curated nor interpreted, a stark omission of care regarding the legacy of Irish and UK feminist art practices.
Feminist Art is already structurally marginalized within museology, art history, and art pedagogies, and within the broader spheres of knowledge production and curation associated with those aspects of shared cultural heritage. in Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s Histories, Griselda Pollock notes the ‘recurring shock of discovery that there have been women artists at all, and so many and such interesting ones which we, as teachers, lecturers and writers, regularly witness with each new class of students or new audience for our lectures on women artists.’ FAMH is identifying this occluded, shared cultural heritage, and creating a unique archive that will help to address those disciplinary and cross-disciplinary elisions that persist to this day.
FAMH is creating an archive for all, allowing us to understand how these shared, past histories and legacies shape our thinking, identity, and environment in the present, and stimulating reflection upon our shared future. The collection and preservation of this archive is urgent for the purposes of current and future knowledge generation, but it is also time critical as a distressing number of feminist artists, art writers, teachers and curators have already died. These critical practitioners and their unique and rare perspective on and testimony to feminist art practice, are lost to us in the present day.
The FAMH project is remedying this specific gap in knowledge with the aim to stimulate future research and understanding in this area.
Please register in advance for this meeting through Zoom.
The DRI Virtual Coffee Mornings are a place for DRI’s staff and members to come together and discuss digital preservation topics, challenges, or projects in a relaxed environment. If you’d like to host a coffee in 2023 morning please email members@dri.ie
