IMAI at the 55th conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) 2024
IMAI director Linnea Semmerling inventoried current heritage practices for distribution-based arts. She analyzed different approaches to cataloguing sound art, cassette culture, and video art on online platforms and alternative databases such as IMAI Play, Tape Mag or Discogs. Specific attention was paid to community involvement, i.e. the ways in which producers, distributors, and audiences participate in defining, acquiring, cataloguing, storing, and making accessible the archival materials. Semmerling's analysis of these heritage practices is guided by Antoine Hennion’s sociology of attachments, challenging the separation of archivist and archival object. This results in the proposition of a speculative community platform for distribution-based audiovisual arts.
