Explore the central and sometimes difficult topics concerning judgments and the place of the archive in contemporary society. In this symposium, speakers question and reconceptualise the idea of the archive. They will interrogate and upend understandings and practices of access, control, agency, power, choice, including the act of repurposing in the creative process. Private, public, cultural, legal, factual, interpreted and other categorisations of the archive are discussed by a series of experts offering different ways of thinking. How are cultural institutions and others addressing these ethical issues and taking the idea of the archive into a new era?

This symposium is held in partnership with the State Library of NSW.

Venue: Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris St, Ultimo, NSW 2007

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