Laura Guy, Francis McKee and Amy Todman - Public Talk

With Laura Guy, Francis McKee and Amy Todman.

As part of The Shock of Victory, this discussion event will delve into the relevance of, and issues and ideas around, archival practices within a contemporary art context.

Departing from the National Library of Scotland's Collecting the Referendum project, the three speakers engage in an open discussion around the themes of collecting politics, the making of a history, public and social linking and contemporary collecting of materials. What might surface are complexities surrounding the ways in which archives and collecting organisations adopt certain operating strategies which may in turn lead to the creation of particular images of identity.

Laura Guy writes and works collaboratively on various projects that negotiate histories of Left, Queer and Feminist struggle. She is a Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art and at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Francis McKee is a curator and writer as well as Director of CCA. Francis has been lead researcher in an AHRC funded project entitled The Glasgow Miracle. This project centres on the process of archiving forty years worth of material from the Third Eye Centre and CCA. Through this work it should be possible to trace a timeline through a vital period in Glasgow's cultural development, relating the archival material to the wider development of the arts and the arts infrastructure in the city.

Amy Todman is currently Referendum Curator at the National Library of Scotland. In this role she works with colleagues across the library, as well as a wide range of publishers and creators of content, to identify, collect, preserve and make available material in a range of formats - including published and unpublished material in print and digital format, websites and social media, moving image and sound – that relate to the recent Scottish Independence Referendum.