We are pleased to invite you to the launch of a new digital publication titled 'Documenting Time, Countering Form' by Rachel Be-Yun Wang, our 2023 Curatorial Research Fellow at Chisenhale Gallery, on the pedagogy and practice of documenting new commissions.

The question of documenting artwork is not as simple as taking the right photos; it requires the labour of archiving, and by extension, a versatile understanding of the systems of authorship that art is built on. How we document is a reflexive question about whose gaze is cast over the artwork; artworks that are fundamentally different epistemic objects for different people.

The contents of this publication are an inquiry into this process. Underpinning the research is an attempt to understand how we produce and enact artistic labour with historicity and posterity in mind. As inherited systems of organisation, archival documentation reveals priorities of the held record, which are sometimes at odds with the practical and often unwieldy realities of ongoing production.

The publication features an introductory essay by Rachel Be-Yun Wang and interviews with artist Joseph Grigely, curator and art historian Sadia Shirazi, and conservator Brian Castriota. In relation to their respective interdisciplinary practices and projects, these conversations reveal ethics, challenges, and value of documentation within creative production.

The digital publication is free and will be available for download on our website from the day of the event. The launch will include remarks from Chisenhale Gallery and Asymmetry, a reading by Rachel, and a celebratory drinks reception to mark the season.

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