By re-imagining the use of international archival material, researchers connected to the Repositioning of Archives theme aim to challenge conventional historical narratives in radical and novel ways.

Research in this area aims to reveal alternative social histories, and provoke new perspectives on class, marginalised communities and gender stereotypes.

Alternative narratives from archival material are explored in order to re-state and contest official histories, illuminate social challenges, and to reveal the sometimes hidden or suppressed. Interdisciplinary creative processes utilised in this group include film ‘making’, fine art, performance and photography.

Areas explored include:

• Revealing and digitising never before seen/seldom-seen archive materials
• Radical Archives
• Activation of Archival Material
• Politics of Archives: the formation of, access to, and ownership of archival material
• Challenging Stereotypes present in Archive
• Contesting official histories
• Restaging of Archive