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As the first ever artist to undertake a residency in the Archives and Collections department at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) in July 2021, Contemporary Performance Practice graduate Minnie Crook will re-visit her experience of working within the archives themselves and the development of her new project Re-tracing The Forgotten.
Her arts practice is in constant collaboration with family members and has manifested itself into a personal archive of material in the forms of videos, letters, images, audio recordings, songs and stories. Having lost her grandfather in July 2020, Minnie was interested in the re-discovery of this collated material and how the archive could simulate the presence of her grandfather without him being there physically. Through Re-tracing the Forgotten, this residency was an opportunity to trace the life, and ultimately the memory of her grandfather, and explores how performance might measure the personal and collective grief.
This talk will study the comparative duality between the public and personal archive; and the performative potential within the site itself, sharing the discoveries and thoughts on the essential purposes of wider archival practices.
As the first ever artist to undertake a residency in the Archives and Collections department at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) in July 2021, Contemporary Performance Practice graduate Minnie Crook will re-visit her experience of working within the archives themselves and the development of her new project Re-tracing The Forgotten.
Her arts practice is in constant collaboration with family members and has manifested itself into a personal archive of material in the forms of videos, letters, images, audio recordings, songs and stories. Having lost her grandfather in July 2020, Minnie was interested in the re-discovery of this collated material and how the archive could simulate the presence of her grandfather without him being there physically. Through Re-tracing the Forgotten, this residency was an opportunity to trace the life, and ultimately the memory of her grandfather, and explores how performance might measure the personal and collective grief.
This talk will study the comparative duality between the public and personal archive; and the performative potential within the site itself, sharing the discoveries and thoughts on the essential purposes of wider archival practices.
