Archives that Matter
Archives that Matter. Digital Infrastructures for Sharing Unshared Histories, was a symposium and workshop organized by Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Daniela Agostinho and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup as part of the Uncertain Archives Research Collective in Copenhagen in 2018. Building on the many research, artistic and curatorial activities that took place throughout the centennial year of 2017, commemorating Denmarks sale of the former Danish West Indies to the United States, this seminar was the first to address the politics and ethics of mass digitization of colonial archives by bringing together experts in digital heritage with artists, researchers and curators working in the field of colonial histories. We invited artists and cultural workers from the US Virgin Islands, Ghana, Denmark and Europe to collectively engage with the archives held in Danish institutions and repositories. The symposium and workshop resulted in a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Information Studies, NTIK guest-edited by Daniela Agostinho, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Karen Louise Grova Søilen and published in 2019.
You can access the journal here https://tidsskrift.dk/ntik/issue/view/8529/965
Participants of the symposium and workshop Archives that Matter
Oceana James, David Berg, photographer , Dorothy Amenuke, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, Temi Odumosu, Kim Jacobsen, Koraljka Šlogar, Marianne Ping Huang, Michael K. Wilson, Yong Sun Gullach, Dalida María Benfield, Marronage, Poul Olson, Mathias Danbolt, Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer, Anders Juhl, Carl Michael Richardt, Astrid Nonbo Andersen, Nina Cramer, Mai Takawira and Lotte Løvholm, Hvid[me]Archive Annarosa Krøyer Holm and Miriam Haile.
The workshop and symposium was organised by Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Daniela Agostinho and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup.
The workshop was produced with the support of Uncertain Archives, DARIAH-EU: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts & Humanities and CEMES: Centre for Modern European Studies (University of Copenhagen)
Authors and contributors to the journal Archives that Matter
The Virgin Islands Studies Collective (VISCO), La Vaughn Belle, Tami Navarro, Ayana Flewellen, Hadiya Sewer, Tiphanie Yanique, Jeannette Ehlers, Dorothy Akpene Amenuke, Ethelene Whitmire, Marronage, Lene Asp Frederiksen, Hvid[me]Archive Annarosa Krøyer Holm and Miriam Haile.
The journal was edited by Daniela Agostinho, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Karen Louise Grova Søilen