Living Archives, Histories and Futures of Alternative Book Publishing (part of Archives / Counter-Archives)

PUBLIC was founded in 1988 by Public Access Collective, a Canadian charitable nonprofit organization committed to curating and producing innovative artistic research-creation projects and public interventions. Living Archives, Histories and Futures of Alternative Book Publishing is a research-creation project focused on developing PUBLIC Books and PUBLIC Online, including the further development of a more hybridized and integrative platform for PUBLIC Access’s publications and projects. This research-creation project will draw upon PUBLIC’s archives, engage new works emerging from the vast Archives/Counter-Archives network of artists, curators, educators, scholars, librarians, archivists, etc., and investigate connections between these resources. These original works will take form as publications, interviews, reviews, criticism, podcasts and podcast series, exhibitions, curatorial engagements, public interventions, setting new experimental forms of writing and publicity alongside canonical readings in art theory, exploring the interactive possibilities of contemporary art works within the public domain as well as open source sites and support for PUBLIC Online, a hybrid research-creation (intellectual and creative forum) that investigates critical interactions and intersections with art and public culture.

Faculty Supervisor:

Janine Marchessault

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Partner:

PUBLIC Journal

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; New and Digital Media; Social Innovation

University:

York University

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