TENT (Theatre for Experiments in New Technologies) Kolkata in collaboration with Arthshila Santiniketan invites registration for “𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹: 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀, 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀, 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲” a three-day workshop on subjects of labour and art practice.

𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗦:
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝟮𝟬-𝟮𝟮 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝟭𝟭 𝗮𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝟳 𝗽𝗺.
𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻.
𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀.

𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: https://forms.gle/SMiJFPVAYLc6T6Dy6

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁-𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲, 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁-𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀.

In The Arcades Project (1982), Walter Benjamin writes about ‘rag picking’ as archival research; the idea was to collect ‘waste’. Such archives are subjective, incomplete, and informal. In this context we ask: What is the ‘archival turn’ in arts practice? And, is the archive still turning? We think against the grain, and consider: Why do archives matter at all, and what is an archive? How are archival materials found, recovered, ‘saved’, reenvisioned and reactivated by artists, filmmakers, curators, researchers, writers? Can we think through archival matters and material and address how “repressed, messy or unstable substances and impure formations” (Lange-Berndt 2015) may surface through our work? The workshop focuses on the debates around ‘archives and materiality’, and how arts practice makes the unknown visible.