ARCHIVO LAB | Visual Arts Laboratory

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ARCHIVO
ACQUISITION
PRIZE

The Archivo Acquisition Prize is conceived as an annual monetary prize awarded to one of the artists in the Archivo LAB programme. The award is a recognition of the conceptual and artistic accomplishment developed throughout the LAB programme, and a distinction to the significance and originality of the final artistic outcome in regard to the LAB theme.

The works of the awarded artists become part of the Archivo Art Collection, which aims to promote, valorise and support the artists that are part of it. Uses of this collection include the representation of the artwork in future initiatives such as publications and exhibitions, including original curatorial projects developed within the Archivo Research Network.

SELECTION COMMITTEE

The selection committee of the Archivo Acquisition Prize is headed by Archivo's director, joined by other four members from the Research Network and the Advisory Board (including curators, art critics, collectors, etc.) working in the field of visual arts.

LAB PROGRAMME

THE INDIGENOUS GAZE

visual methodologies and decolonial strategies in contemporary visual arts

ARTISTS

Caroline Monnet / Nnenna Onuoha / Yara Jimmink / Minik Bidstrup

VISITING MENTORS

Astrid Korporaal / Bianca Salvo / Helen Starr / Nasheli Jiménez del Val / Samira Jamouchi / Spring Ulmer / Marianna Tsionki / Rashmi Wiswanathan / Sol Izquierdo de la Viña

ARCHIVE & CONFLICT

POST-PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICES

IN A POST-DIGITAL WORLD

ARCHIVO LAB 2024 aims to critically investigate the relationship between photography, the archive and conflict across different temporalities. Throughout the LAB programme, artists will delve into the materialities and immaterialities of archival production within the digital age in regard to contemporary critical appropriations concerned with different perspectives on conflict, as well as history’s repressed events and violations. It further intends to examine the techno-aesthetics of datafication, understanding artistic strategies as potential sites for resisting and counter-acting current extractivist processes, which tend to capture and transform everyday life into data.

GUEST CURATOR

HELEN STARR

Helen Starr is a cultural activist, curator and producer from Trinidad, based in the UK. She is the founder of "The Mechatronic Library" since 2010, a project that enables artists and museums to create artworks using new media technologies. She is interested in how Virtual, AI and digital systems no longer simply model physical reality, but also shape the way we behave and act with or without our knowledge and consent. These digital artworks are showcased in thought provoking multimedia exhibitions accompanied by insightful public programmes. Community, healing and learning are the core of Starr’s practice.

ARTISTS