A pink rectangular poster for the exhibition Becoming Anarchival at Gallery 881 by Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith showing in the center an image of a fossil anthotype.
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Becoming anarchival

ByTrudi Lynn Smith

Becoming Anarchival

This fall, Kate Hennessy and I are presenting our collaborative work at 881 Gallery in Vancouver. The work emerges from fieldwork around a defunded paleontology research centre in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. We explore the tension between archival as the imagined truth and stability of museums, collections, and geographies, and the anarchival as the unpredictable, the impermanent, and the speculative. The show emerges from arts based research and our collaborative research process where explorations in anthotypes, video, c-prints, writing are ways of encountering the anarchival.

You can see more writing and images (and more of our our collaborative work) at our shared site, Pairatext: https://www.smithhennessystudio.com/

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