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FACULTY

ARCHIVO EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME

SARA CALLAHAN


Malmö University, Sweden


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Dr Sara Callahan is an art historian whose resarch focuses on art and visual culture from the twentieth and twenty-first century. Her various research projects converge around the question of how artistic and other visual practices relate to theories, attitudes, and phenomena from non-art contexts, and how the present interacts and interferes with history in different ways.

Callahan is interested in the way artworks identify and process the most pressing issues of the day in ways that engage knowledge and ideas from scientific, philosophical and political contexts, and she believes that by studying and understanding phenomena in the artworld, we can better understand the multifaceted aspects of the world around us.

Callahan’s book Art + Archive: Understanding the Archival Turn in Contemporary Art was published by Manchester University Press in their series Rethinking Art’s Histories in 2022. She is currently finishing a monographic study that investigates how photographic motion studies have been activated in different discourses and visual culture since the late-nineteenth century. In addition, she is currently developing a project about clouds as a visual and conceptual motif in contemporary art; a study that ties nineteenth century studies of clouds to present-day artworks that engage with the cloud as technological and environmental concern.

COURSES

This course offers an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations behind the “archival turn” in contemporary art. Through key texts and selected artworks, the course traces how archival thinking entered artistic and curatorial practice in the mid-1990s, and how it has since evolved. 

Participants will develop critical tools to engage with archives, exploring their role in shaping narratives, memory, and visual culture.




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