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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Queen Mary University of London
In the Afterwards: The LIFT Living Archive (2008-13)
Research Project Description
This research project developed, tested and disseminated strategies for public engagement with archives generally and the LIFT Living Archive specifically. Collaborators included Caoimhe McAvinchey (PI), Erica Campagne (Participation Producer, LIFT), Sue Mayo (artist), staff from Goldsmiths’ Library, Pen Friends Community Writing Group, staff and students from Kilmorie Primary School, Forest Hill School and Goldsmiths.
Research Imperatives
To develop awareness of, access to and creative engagement with the LIFT archive.
To develop a model of participatory arts practice for working in and with archive materials.
To contribute to a more sustainable archive sector by developing new models of partnership across sectors including arts, education and archive management.
Peer Assessment/Quality Indicators
On-going collaboration with leading international arts organisation LIFT.
Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Creativity, Culture and Education.
Establishing dialogues between professional practices in arts and archive management, the academy and related stakeholders.
Invited presentations at national seminars and conferences.
Publication of research on LIFT’s website (3,500+ downloads).
Research Outputs
New methodologies for public engagement with archives developed with 300+ non-traditional archive users across London.
New models of teaching and learning about theatre and performance archives (Goldsmiths, QMUL and UEL).
Research Report, Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive (London: LIFT, 2010).
LIFTING London (June 2009). Launch event with over 150 artists, academics, funders, representatives from national and international cultural organisations.
Seminar for arts organisations developing archives (December 2009).
Past is Prologue, seminar examining how artists including Tim Etchells, Siobhan Davis and Richard Wentworth work with archive material (September 2013).
Keynote address at PALATINE’s Archiving for the Future: Using Archives to Enhance Learning and Teaching in Drama and Theatre Studies, UEL (May 2010).
Articles in Research in Drama Education and ARC Magazine (2013).
