The Imaginary Museum: The Art Library as Archive

Venue: Leeds College of Art, Vernon Street Library

The Imaginary Museum is produced in response to the tradition of artists and theorists interrogating the museum archive format to investigate and expose the politics of collection and display. Are the images of artworks, such as those found in art books, a different kind of object to the original? What is the relationship of the object to its referent? How can art reproduction be a creative act?

The Imaginary Museum will be on show from 6 March to 2 April at Leeds College of Art. Visitors to the ‘museum’ will see a series of 18 postcard reproductions selected from an open call and curated by Louise Atkinson, practice-based PhD student at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies. The audience will be able to select from the postcards, in part or in whole, by leaving a suggested donation in a nearby honesty box. There will also be small branded envelopes for audiences to keep their selection in, thereby creating their own imaginary museum.

See the blog for more information.

See here for details of the closing party for the exhibition, Dub Day - Non-shhh in the Library.