FW: Archiving the Alternative / Avant-Garde in the United States

Oct. 7, 2005

Type: discussion

— e-Flux <[email protected]> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:43 -0400
> From: e-Flux <[email protected]>
> Subject: Archiving the Alternative / Avant-Garde in
> the United States
>
> Art Spaces Archives Project [AS-AP]
>
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> Art Spaces Archives Project [AS-AP]
>
> Launches a New National Initiative to Document
>
> and Preserve Endangered Archives
>
> Get Paid to be Preserved
>
> http://www.as-ap.org
>
>
> Recently a consortium of American visual arts
> organizations met to discuss documenting and
> preserving the history of the avant-garde and
> alternative movement in the United States. This
> history is now increasingly recognized for its
> importance to the worldwide community of artists,
> scholars, art historians, educators and aficionados.
>
> If your organization was founded in the United
> States between 1950 and 2000 please help us by going
> to the AS-AP website https://www.as-ap.org and
> adding your organization, or checking to see if
> AS-AP has already indexed it, and then completing
> our archival survey.
>
> AS-AP is not currently investigating organizations
> founded after 2000.
>
> AS-AP is interested in all aspects of art
> presentation – including for-profit, non-profit and
> unincorporated organizations. We also wish that
> institutions holding of archives related to the
> alternative / avant-garde movement also register
> individual holding with us.
>
> We will collect and analyze information from
> thousands of organizations in order to quantify the
> need for archival services to the field.
>
> The survey may be completed on-line or on paper by
> downloading a RTF or PDF version of this survey from
> AS-AP's website at http://as-ap.org/as-ap_survey.pdf
> However, we hope organizations or their
> representatives will complete it online.
>
> This survey is an ongoing effort – our database is
> already open for scholars to review, but also for
> new data to be inserted and changes to be made to
> existing records. Unlike a frozen, printed document,
> the AS-AP database will be living. Your
> participation is vital in relaying history to future
> scholars!
>
> This survey will take approximately 20 minutes to
> complete. The first 1,000 organizations to complete
> this form will receive $50, which is made possible
> through a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for
> the Visual Arts.
>
> In the future we would like to financially assist
> your organization with your archival needs. All
> organizations that complete this survey will become
> eligible for future funding when it becomes
> available.
>
> Please email us at [email protected] or call us at
> (212) 330-7688 if you have any questions whatsoever
> regarding AS-AP or this survey.
>
> More information about AS-AP can be found on our
> website:
>
> http://www.as-ap.org
>
> David Platzker, Project Director / [email protected]
>
> STEERING COMMITTEE
> Rebecca Cederholm, College Art Association
> Linda Earle, Skowhegan School of Painting and
> Sculpture
> Milan R. Hughston,The Museum of Modern Art
> Elizabeth Merena, New York State Council on the Arts
> Betsy Sussler, Bomb Magazine
> Marvin Taylor, New York University, Fales Library,
> Downtown Collection
> Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive
>
> FUNDING CREDITS
> Art Spaces Archives Project [AS-AP] has received
> generous support
> from The New York State Council on the Arts [NYSCA],
> The National
> Endowment for the Arts [NEA], and the Andy Warhol
> Foundation for the
> Visual Arts. AS-AP also gratefully acknowledges
> operating assistance
> from the College Art Association.
>
> [email protected]
>
> Art Spaces Archives Project [AS-AP]
> PO Box 20261
> New York, NY 10011
>
> 212 330 7688 tel.
>
> http://www.as-ap.org
>
>
>
> For more information go to: http://www.as-ap.org
>
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>
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