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Examples of Creative Engagements
Links of Interest - please add your own
ENGLISH 718: Opening the Archive
English 718 Opening the Archive
Syllabus for semester one 2017 – subject to change
Last updated 9 Mar 2017 (seminar groups added)
Seminars Monday and Thursday 3-4.30pm
Monday: Arts 1, Room 214 (or fieldtrip)
Thursday: Arts 1, Room 213 (or fieldtrip)
Convenor: Professor Michele Leggott, Arts 1, Room 603
Office Hour: Thurs 2-3 or by appointment
Email: m.leggott@auckland.ac.nz
Course support: Makyla Curtis
Email: mcur487@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Week 1: Matrices
Mon 6 March
Session 1: Fieldtrip with Katherine Pawly
Location: UoA Special Collections, General Library, Level 1
Thurs 9 March
Session 2: Spectrality
Location: Home room
Resources: Michele Leggott, ‘Opening the Archive: Robin Hyde, Eileen Duggan and the Persistence of Record’
Week 2: Ordering worlds I
Mon 13 March
Session 1: Group screening – Organized
(dirs. Jörg Haaßengier & Jürgen Brügger)
Location: Home Room
Thurs 16 March
Session 2: Taxonomies, ontologies, mattering
Location: Home Room
Resources: Elizabeth Yale, ‘The History of Archives’
Jacques Derrida, from Archive Fever
Jose Saramago, from All the Names (text & audio)
Week 3: Ordering worlds II
Mon 20 March
Session 1: Fieldtrip with Hirini Kaa
Location: Waipapa Marae – UoA City Campus
Thurs 23 March
Session 2: Whakapapa, kaitiakitanga, korero
Location: Home Room
Seminar Group: Betty & Leah
Resources: Ranginui Walker, 'Tāne-nui-ā-Rāngi'
Ngarino Ellis, Te Ao Hurihuri o ngā Taonga Tuku iho
Āwhina Tamarapa, Introduction of Whatu Kākahu: Māori Cloaks
Paki Harrison, UoA, Tāne-nui-a-rangi
Week 4: Memory machinery
Mon 27 March
Session 1: Fieldtrip – with Nina Finigan
Location: Auckland War Memorial Museum & Library
Thurs 30 March
Session 2: The past-present (with Stephen Turner)
Location: Home Room
Seminar Group: Alicia, Hannah & Danielle
Resources: Barry Barclay, ‘Before the Beginning’
Stephen Turner, 'Settler Dreaming'
Week 5: Copies
Mon 3 April
Session 1: Fieldtrip – with Georgia Prince and Tessa Stubbing. Letterpress and letterpress ephemera collection & public access zine collection
Location: Central City Library & Sir George Grey Special Collections
Thurs 6 April
Session 2: Multiples & Editions (with Makyla Curtis)
Location: Home Room
Seminar Group: Ruby & Susannah
Resources: Makyla Curtis, ‘Certified Copies’
Johanna Drucker, 'The Myth of the Democratic Multiple'
Week 6 Going digital I
Mon 10 April
Session 1: Fieldtrip – with Libby Nichol
Location: UoA archives, 24 Symonds St
Thurs 13 April
Session 2: Fieldtrip – Tapa Notebooks with Selina Tusitala Marsh
Location: UoA Special Collections
Resources: Deidre Brown, Te Ahua Hiko: Digital Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Objects, People, and Environments
Tapa Notebooks at the NZ Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc)
Writing Activity One (25%), 2500 words
Case study: an archive
DUE: Thursday 20 April, by 4pm
MID SEMESTER BREAK
Week 7: Going digital II
Mon 1 May
Session 1: Virtual fieldtrip –New Zealand Fashion Museum with Doris de Pont and Helen Sword
Location: Home Room
Thurs 4 May
Session 2: Code, cloud, cascade
Location: Home Room
Seminar Group: Nikki & Mirren
Resources: New Zealand Fashion Museum
Jenny Newell, Old objects, new media: Historical collections, digitzation and affect
Week 8: Reproduction, translation, ripping
Mon 8 May
Session 1: Fieldtrip –audiovisual archives with Tim Page
Location: Home room
Thurs 11 May
Session 2: Afterlives
Location: Home Room
Seminar Group: Samantha & Priyesha
Resources: Hito Steyerl, ‘Politics of the Archive: Translations in Film’
Jo Smith, ‘Native Reenactments/Living Iterability’
https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/ampm/
Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud
Week 9: Creative engagements
Mon 15 May
Session 1: Fieldtrip with Linda Tyler
Location: Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 Shortland Street
Thurs 18 May
Session 2: Linework (with Michele Leggott)
Location: Home Room
Resources: Michele Leggott, ‘Emily and Her Sisters’
Michele Leggott, ‘Writing Lines: Emily Harris’s Taranaki War’
Ann Shelton and Stephen Turner, Wastelands
Powerpoint from Linda Tyler - please view before Monday's class.
Week 10: Living archives
Mon 22 May
PLEASE NOTE RECENT CHANGES
Session 1: Fieldtrip - Backsides
Location: Meet first at the homeroom - but we won't be staying there.
Note: In all weather, come prepared.
Thurs 25 May
Session 2: Seeds (with Anna Boswell)
Location: Auckland War Memorial Museum
Resources: Anna Boswell, Lessons from the Dodo
Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas, 'Vanishing Points' from Cook’s Sites
Recommended: Anna Boswell, 'The Making and Unmaking of New Zealand'
Writing Activity Two (25%, 2500 words)
Seminar facilitation report
DUE: Friday 26 May, by 4pm
Week 11: ‘Disorder’
Mon 29 May
Session 1: Rescheduled. Fieldtrip of Old Government House grounds with Stanley Jones
Location: Meet in front of Old Government House, on the terrace.
Note: In all weather, come prepared.
Thurs 1 June
Session 2: Waste, rubbish, ‘silly archives’ (with Stephen Turner, Anna Boswell and Makyla Curtis)
Location: Home Room
Resources: Deborah Bird Rose, ‘Decolonizing the Discourse’
Gay Hawkins, from The Ethics of Waste 'Preface'
Hoarders episode (Please ensure you watch this before class)
Week 12: Review
Mon 5 June
Session 1: Queens Birthday (no class)
Thurs 8 June
Session 2: Archiving the course
Location: Gus Fisher Gallery (with Susan & Betty Davis)
Research project (40%, 4000 words) + portfolio (10%, 1000 words)
DUE: Monday 12 June, by 4pm
Learning aims:
This course aims to support you in developing:
- Your critical awareness of what archives are and how they are formed, maintained and used
- Your ability to conduct research using practical, transferrable skills
Assessment plan:
- Case study: an archive (25%, 2,500 words) 13 April 4pm
- Seminar facilitation report (25%, 2,500 words) 26 May 4pm
- Research project (40%, 4,000 words) + portfolio (10%, 1,000 words) 12 June 4pm
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