Storage

Professor Williams chose to commission the film 'Storage' to document her own archive and its history. A screening of the film was followed by a Martini bar reception at the group exhibition 'FINDS 1' in the gallery of London College of Communication.

Williams explains: "My first instinct when offered the opportunity of participating in the series of Professorial Platforms was to try to discover how some new creative work could emerge from this event. I had decided that I would like the Platform to be about my archive, material from all my past curatorial and publishing projects which I have been collecting and editing for over thirty years. The archive has had many homes - in the Shoreditch Biennale office in Hoxton Square in the mid 1990s, followed by a dark eight years spent in the attic of a house in East London. Then to Sussex, where it was based for a short time at a disused school in Rye, then up to the Beacon, an arts centre/home run by Judy Dewsbery in Hastings, and finally, in the last few weeks, to a shared studio space in Hastings Old Town. I have never wanted to share living space with my archive - too many memories, ghosts of past projects, excitement, event, travel and effort reduced to a pile of papers. But it is nevertheless an integral part of what I am and what I do, a narrative of people, projects, places and times."

As the University continues to maintain and develop its profile as a global leader in arts research, a series of Professorial Platform lectures was launched in 2008.

The Platforms are an opportunity for University colleagues and associates, as well as invited members of the public, to learn more about the research undertaken in the University. The Platforms enable Professors to highlight their field of interest and the University, in turn, to recognise and commemorate their successes to date.

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