[UN]Boxing Archives
[UN]Boxing Archives
Berea College, Special Collections & Archive, April 4th-30th 2022
The Berea College Special Collections and Archive are a body of materials preserving the institutional & cultural history of not only the college, but the Southern Appalachian region. From music, folk tales, financial ledgers, this vast archive preserves our collective memories of history. Yet it is the archivist through a practice of weeding, describing, connecting stakeholders to informational values that shape our remembrance of tomorrow’s history.
Since summer 2021, a body of work has been emerging that document the experience of being a processing archivist here at Berea. With every collection encountered and a level of auditing, processing, cataloguing has occurred, visual compositions have been created as an alternative access point into the knowledge held within these archives.
The exhibition opens on the Hutchins Library main floor that features large mural drawings representing the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and Berea College repository spaces. Specifically exploring how photographic information can be extended beyond a spilt second document. On the first floor embedded within the Special Collections & Archive, audiences are invited to interact with an Art Archives installation constructed by the Artist Archivist and joined by Tristan Rogers. Featuring both detailed visual collage research documenting the processing of the Body Recall Inc, and the Appalachian-Science in the Public Interest archive.
