Artists in the Archive – Panel
Chair: Jacina Leong Panellists: Alexander Williams aka Pug, Nataša Čordašić, and Fayen d’Evie
This discussion will explore how artists engage with archives not only as repositories of history, but also as contested spaces that shape narratives, identities, and cultural memory. Working in, with, and against the archive, the panelists each navigate questions of absence, bias, and power—seeking to uncover, disrupt, and reimagine what is preserved and what is erased. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A, inviting reflections and further provocations.
RegisterTime: 1.30pm – 3pm
The Garden Building
RMIT University
Melbourne City Campus
Photos courtesy of the artists
Supported by
CAST
Engagement: Archives are Hot!Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST) produces art research that critically engages with social and public spheres with a particular interest in how artistic practices intersect with issues of equity, access and democracy.
The research group is a hub for critical thinking, collaboration and the exchange of ideas, knowledge dissemination, practice-led artistic research and socially-engaged art practice. We work to strengthen art projects on creative care, ecology, education, queer(y)ing practice, migration and mobility, social practice and public art. CAST engages on local and international levels by collaborating with practitioners, communities, industry and government partners.
Across all of our research, CAST recognises the importance of Indigenous and First Nations voices, perspectives and agency. We believe that Indigenous ways of knowing and being are central to the fabric of contemporary life and we acknowledge the sovereignty of our First Peoples.