In Relation: Power and Presence in Archives – a conversation between Topher Campbell, Dominique Luster and Erika Tan

This blog post presents a summary of content produced as part of the Art360 Foundation Programme (2014 to 2025). It is shared here with the intention of preserving and extending access to the important learnings from this programme of work.

This open conversation, held on 22 March 2022 with Topher Campbell, Dominique Luster and Erika Tan, moderated by Lisa Darms, Executive Director of Hauser & Wirth Institute, explored the complexities of relationships to, and within, archives created by both individuals and institutions.

This event was part of the Expanded Archive Network series, a collaboration between Art360 Foundation in the UK and Hauser & Wirth Institute in the US.

Discussion centred on relationships, power and presence in archives, with speakers considering ‘who’s in, who’s out, whose archive?’, how archives can exist in dialogue, and how their framing and discoverability uphold systems of power or, conversely, can bear witness to lives, bodies and communities.

The Expanded Archive Network connected freelance and institution-based archivists, curators and other memory workers through a shared interest in artists’ archives and futures. It sought to foster a cross-cultural network for resource sharing and innovation in the expanded field of artists’ archives.

• Read more about this event – Hauser Wirth Institute website