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Passionate About History and the Making of History: in situ dialogues with artists and their assistants about studio archives
Heather Gendron, Art Librarian - UNC Chapel Hill [email protected]
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WE ARTISTS’ STUDIO ARCHIVES
Funded by:Artist Support Partners Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation H.W. Wilson Foundation Research Award, Art Libraries Society of North AmericaUNC Chapel Hill – University Research Council, Faculty Small Grant
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• increase the visibility of their work (get it in shows, have it written about and researched)
• sell their work to collectors and museums, get grants, and manage their fiscal operations
• manage their legal rights and estate
• create new works• and ultimately maintain control
over their image as an artist and their legacy.
STUDIO ARCHIVES help artists:
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• Benefits of organizing & preserving• Figuring out what you gave &
deciding what to keep• Studio archives assistants (hiring,
managing, etc.)• Managing the artwork (physical &
digital)• Managing and preserving digital
content (e.g., digital images & video, audio, email, websites, documents, etc.)
• Databases• Working with institutional archives
& museums• Estate planning
STUDIO ARCHIVES publication:Case studies
Forms & Worksheets
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METHODOLOGY & PARTICIPANTS
Semi-structured interviews with artists, studio assistants, archivists and art historians.
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SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS
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DEMOGRAPHICS - ARTISTS
MALE FEMALE
50+
30’S-40’S
AGE of ARTISTS
GENDER of ARTISTS
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DEMOGRAPHICS - ARTISTS
< 10 YEARS
10-20 YEARS
40+ YEARS
30-40 YEARS
YEARS AS AN ARTIST
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Mel Chin
“With conceptual work there's a lot of paper, a lot of digital files, a lot of research…and the artwork is a huge part of it…"
Rose Candelara, Archives Assistant
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Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project Philadelphia Museum of Art2009
Cai Guo Qiang “fireworks” & “explosion events”
Closing Rainbow: Fireworks Project for the Closing Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic GamesBeijing, China2008
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ARTISTS’ STUDIO ARCHIVES
“The archives has to blend in with the working functions of the studio…”
-Bonnie Huie, Archives Assistant (Cai Studio)
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personal photos
unsorted slides
plans/photos galleries museums
video stills
STUDIO ARCHIVES
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STUDIO ARCHIVESTHE (ART)WORKTHE DOCUMENTATION OF/ABOUT THE (ART)WORKINSPIRATIONAL & SOURCE MATERIALS• Artwork inventories & databases (image & video libraries, sales
records, preservation records, exhibition history, etc.)• Artist statements, CVs, websites• Financial and artwork sales records• Correspondence – personal and with “art world” people
(collectors, gallery owners, museum staff, art critics & historians, etc.)
• Recorded interviews, presentations, materials from courses taught• Personal & studio libraries• Exhibition catalogs and announcements• Source materials (e.g., unedited video used or to be used in final
works)• Sketchbooks• Artwork not yet sold• Collections of artwork by other artists
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STUDIO ARCHIVESRight now it feels like the word “archive” seems a lot bigger than my practice so far…This is a great thing for me to be talking about because it’s not something that I think about in an extended way. I do my process of creating a digital file and put everything in it…then I go to the next project and that’s it.
-early career artist (A)
It’s hard for me to apply that word [archive] to myself. I have my computer and my hard drives and I guess that’s my archive. It depends on if it’s my work or other things that led up to the work because then it goes a lot deeper….There’s a lot of flow between my life and my work.”
-early career artist (B)
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STUDIO ARCHIVES databases
Main SectionsArtworksCVBibliographyDocumentationAcquisitionsConservation LogRegistrar LogVideo
Artwork EntryTitleDateMaterial(s) LocationExhibitCollaborator(s)DimensionsWork type (installation, drawing, etc.)
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STUDIO ARCHIVES digital filing
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Juan LoganPlease Save This
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STUDIO ARCHIVES physical storage
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STUDIO ARCHIVES digital/video storage & preservation
I also didn't know how to go through them [artworks on video] and what to eliminate because formats keep changing so much that I have no idea and I try to ask people and I've gotten nowhere...I have 3/4 inch tapes that most of the work was done on for a period of 15 years...They're cluttering up the whole back [area] there...a space...that used to be my edit(ing) room and now it's just a storage room.
- late career artist
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READINGS - current favorites
Artists' estates : Reputations in trust, ed. Magda Salvesen. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
The Artist Interview : for Conservation and Presentation of Contemporary Art, Guidelines and Practice. Lydia Beerkens , et al. Heyningen: Jap Sam Books, 2012.
Artists’ records in the archives : Symposium proceedings / New York, NY. Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York (2013) – available online
Full bibliography available upon request.
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Why artists keep studio archives…
1. Business needs and goals.
2. To develop and promote artist’s work.
3. Legacy & estate planning.
Challenges…
Time, money, and/or skills.
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THANKS!
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