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Call for Proposals
2nd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices
Toronto, Canada
12th–14th July 2024
Presented by Archive/Counter-Archive, Eye Filmmuseum and the Toronto International Film Festival® (TIFF)
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 1 October 2023
2024 Conference Theme: Building Alliances
(A)rchival endeavors should not be about documenting the past, nor even about imagining the future…but about building a liberatory now.
—Michelle Caswell, Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (2021, 13)
(T)he archival impulse could be recast… as the possibility of creating alliances: between text and image, between major and minor institutions, between filmmakers, photographers, writers and computers, between online and offline practices, between the remnant and what lies in reserve, between time and the untimely. These are alliances against dissipation and loss, but also against the enclosure, privatization and thematisation of archives, which are issues of global, and immediate, concern.
—Pad.ma, “10 Theses on the Archive” (2010) https://pad.ma/documents/OH
The biennial Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference is an opportunity for scholars, archivists, artists, curators, filmmakers, students, and film enthusiasts from across the world to gather and explore contemporary professional, artistic, and socio-political issues affecting audiovisual heritage today. The aim of the conference is to broaden the knowledge and connections within the global archival community, leading to new insights into the material and cultural resonances of archival approaches to sound and moving image in different parts of the world.
For more information and submission guidelines, visit: https://counterarchive.ca/gava-2024