Table of Contents
Part I
In the Archive: practices and encounters
1 ‘Material evidences surviving in the form of writing’: materiality in archival theory and practice
Alexandrina Buchanan
2 ’The true object of study’: the material body of the analogue archive
Sue Breakell
3 Archival finding aids and perceptual frames: extending material contact points through Stephen Chaplin’s Slade School Archive Reader
Liz Bruchet
4 Archiving with scissors: materiality and cutting practices in photographic archives
Costanza Caraffa
Part II
With the archive: energy
5 Valentine’s Jacket
Maryanne Dever
6 The archive as a site of making
Peter Lester
7 Applications of energy: a study of artists and entropy in the material
Lisa Cianci
8 Archival endings: erosion and erasure in the film archive
Elodie A. Roy
Part III
About the Archive: Technologies
9 The material archive everyday: technologies of the filing system
Sarah Cain
10 The materialism of techno-archival memory
Wolfgang Ernst
11 Paper tensions: from flipbooks to scanners – the role of paper in moving image practices
Amanda Egbe
12 Expressing materiality in archival records
Athanasios Velios
Part IV
Beyond the archive: expanding the frame
13 Lost unities: the materiality of the migrated archives
James Lowry and Forget Chaterera-Zambuko
14 Fabrications: the quilt as archive
Claire Smith
15 Performing gestures towards the archive: queer fragments and other ways of mattering
Ben Cranfield
16 ‘That’s special, we’ll keep that’: a conversation about counter archiving and socially engaged practice at Tate Exchange
Sarah Haylett, Lucy Bayley, Cara Courage, Julia LePla, Pip Laurenson, Hélia Marçal and Kit Webb