Object, Use, Index: Archives in and of Artists’ Moving Images

Online talk for Yale Architecture Gallery as part of the events series for the exhibition 'A Marvellous Entanglement' by artist Isaac Julien.

London-based researcher Claire M. Holdsworth, lecturer at the University of the Arts London (UAL), draws from her experiences working in artists’ and other private collections, including those of Isaac Julien. Considering how experimental film and video works made in the UK since the 1970s have critiqued history, Holdsworth responds to Julien’s multichannel film installation Lina Bo Bardi—A Marvellous Entanglement (2019). The talk traces queer and decolonial aesthetics, examining how this work enacts complex dialogues between sounded and visualized materials, the past and the present, and what this means for artwork/artist archives and the institutions that house them.