Unfixed Archives

Unfixed Archives
Podcast Description
Unfixed Archives investigates how archivists and artists work with and preserve performance. The show investigates performance archiving through a series of interviews, studio and site visits with artists and performance archives from across the UK and Europe.
Presented and Produced by Curator Sophie Barrett-Pouleau, Unfixed Archives brings together different methodologies of performance archiving and hears from multidisciplinary artists themselves about how they explore and enact elements of archiving through performance (sound & music, performance art, contemporary dance) and how performative archives operate, preserve and activate.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes such as performance archiving, interdisciplinary methodologies, and preservation practices, with episodes delving into topics like the intersection of performance, ritual, and archaeology exemplified by discussions with artists like M Lissoni and Emily Fielding. The show focuses on how different forms of performance art and archives are activated and maintained.

Unfixed Archives investigates how archivists and artists work with and preserve performance. The show investigates performance archiving through a series of interviews, studio and site visits with artists and performance archives from across the UK and Europe.
Presented and Produced by Curator Sophie Barrett-Pouleau, Unfixed Archives brings together different methodologies of performance archiving and hears from multidisciplinary artists themselves about how they explore and enact elements of archiving through performance (sound & music, performance art, contemporary dance) and how performative archives operate, preserve and activate.
For the inaugural episode of Unfixed Archives, curator Sophie Barrett-Pouleau speaks to contemporary artists M Lissoni and Emily Fielding to break down how their practices involve archival processes, performance, ritual, religion and archeology.

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