Tube videos from this 2023 conference can be found here.
As noted on their opening website:
Archives, and therefore, art archives as well, are no longer understood as organic series of immobile documents produced by a person or an institution; they are constantly changing living places containing documents that are permanently activated, by archivists, students and researchers. Moreover, modern archive doctrine has omitted the concept of author in the archive, despite the fact that some archivistic practices turn the action into a joint creation, with multi-authorship, in which every step, activation or process creates a semantically new document that involves an author.
In this context, the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and the Museu Picasso Barcelona are pooling knowledge and resources to organize an International symposium on archive practice in 21st-century art that will bring together archivists, curators, artists, historians and researchers from all over the world.
Keeping (and Telling) the Past 