Conference and exhibition I REMEMBER THIS, 8 October 2024
The conference I REMEMBER THIS held on 8 October 2024, which was jointly organised by three archives on contemporary art that are part of the project Art Archives Study. Before and After 2004 was a one-day conference in Vienna with international guests that also met with great interest from students, artists, international archive partners and others. In their joint two-year project co-financed by the EU, Moderna galerija Archives in Ljubljana, the Archive of Fine Arts in Prague and basis wien—Archive and Documentation Centre endeavoured to use their respective holdings to create a retrospective view of the change in the political landscape since the EU expansion by 10 countries in 2004. It was the first attempt by the three archives to trace a specific period of time on the basis of exhibition histories and their theoretical reflections through published texts and interviews, along with organisation of and the presentation at the conference I REMEMBER THIS. Preparations began w