Maria Carvajal A Look at the Archival Process  

Date(s): Jan 16 to Feb 28 2023

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A Look at the Archival Process  

Diapositives de l’espace d’exposition, de A Retake of the Sher-Gil Archives de Vivan Sundaram et de Home/Nation de Rummana Hussein. Réalisées en 2001 par Denis Farley. 

As part of an internship in records and archives management

Under the supervision of Denis Lessard, archivist

Archival practice is not always clear in people’s minds. Throughout my certificate, I found myself explaining that archival science is not simply “filing papers.” Archival science is a beautiful profession and obviously more complex than that. I will not discuss information management because, although it shares many aspects and functions with archives management, I see them as two fundamentally different practices. Archives management works with a level of memory that is committed to the preservation of heritage and the need to create a social portrait.

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A Look at the Archival Process  

Diapositives de l’espace d’exposition, de A Retake of the Sher-Gil Archives de Vivan Sundaram et de Home/Nation de Rummana Hussein. Réalisées en 2001 par Denis Farley. 

Maria Carvajal is a Spanish set designer who has been living in Montreal since 2014. She built her experience in theatres in Madrid and at the Denise Pelletier Theatre in Montreal through the Montreal Arts Council’s démARTMtl program for the inclusion of culturally diverse artists . Since 2019 she has been supplementing her experiences in the creation and design of spaces with studies in Museology and Archival Studies at UQAM. She has also worked as an assistant to the Artistic Director in several American film productions. 

Denis Lessard lives and works in Montreal. Since 1982, he has presented his performances and visual works in Canada, the United States, France and the Netherlands. He holds a MA in art history and a certificate in records and archives management (Université de Montréal, 1985 and 2010). He has also worked as an art critic, translator, guest curator and art history lecturer. Through his interdisciplinary practice, he adresses issues about collecting, male identity, spirituality and the relationship between literature, music and the visual arts. He has participated in a number of residencies in Canada and the Netherlands since 1987. He was awarded the Louis-Comtois Prize in 1994, along with several creation grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and two travel grants from Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec. Lessard is also a consultant in records and archives management in the area of culture.

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Preliminary sketch of the exhibition set-up Secular Practice: Recent Art from India. [before November 10, 2001]. 1 textual record (1p): handwritten drawing 

OBORO Archives, PROG28/S9,SS1 

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Preliminary sketch of The Madhouse (Einstein’s Brain Project) exhibition set-up. [before September 15, 2001]. 1 textual record (1p): handwritten drawing 

OBORO Archives, PROG28/S9,SS1,SSS1 

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Preliminary sketches for the set-up of The Madhouse (Einstein’s Brain Project) exhibition. [before September 15, 2001]. 4 textual records (4p): handwritten drawing.   

OBORO Archives, PROG28/S9,SS1,SSS1 

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Preparatory pages for the mounting of the exhibition Secular Practice: Recent Art from India. [before November 10, 2001]. 4 textual documents (1p): handwritten text. *  

OBORO Archives, PROG28/S9,SS1,SSS1 

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Preliminary drawing of the set-up for the exhibition The Madhouse (Einstein’s Brain Project). [before September 15, 2001]. 1 textual record (1p): handwritten drawing 

OBORO Archives, PROG28/S9,SS1,SSS1 

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Preliminary drawing of the set-up for the exhibition The Madhouse (Einstein’s Brain Project). [before September 15, 2001]. 1 textual record (1p): handwritten drawing 

OBORO Archives, PROG28/S9,SS1,SSS1 

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Preparatory pages for the mounting of the exhibition Secular Practice: Recent Art from India. [before November 10, 2001]. 4 textual documents (1p): handwritten text. *  

OBORO Archives, PROG28/S9,SS1,SSS1 

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Preparatory pages for the mounting of the exhibition Secular Practice: Recent Art from India. [before November 10, 2001]. 4 textual documents (1p): handwritten text. *  

OBORO Archives, PROG28/S9,SS1,SSS1 

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Preparatory pages for the mounting of the exhibition Secular Practice: Recent Art from India. [before November 10, 2001]. 4 textual documents (1p): handwritten text. *  

OBORO Archives, PROG28/S9,SS1,SSS1 

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Preparatory pages for the mounting of the exhibition Secular Practice: Recent Art from India. [before November 10, 2001]. 4 textual documents (1p): handwritten text. *  

OBORO Archives, PROG28/S9,SS1,SSS1 

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Preliminary drawing of the set-up for the exhibition The Madhouse (Einstein’s Brain Project). [before September 15, 2001]. 1 textual record (1p): handwritten drawing 

OBORO Archives, PROG28/S9,SS1,SSS1 

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Slides of the exhibition space, A Retake of the Sher-Gil Archives by Vivan Sundaram and Home/Nation by Rummana Hussein. Produced in 2001 by Denis Farley.

Slides of the exhibition space, A Retake of the Sher-Gil Archives by Vivan Sundaram and Home/Nation by Rummana Hussein. Produced in 2001 by Denis Farley.