📦 Collective Arpentage Reading: Arkive City edited by Julie Bacon 📦
🗓️ Wednesday 6 May 2026, 6-8pm at Void Art Centre
🔗 Free Registration at the link above.
As part of our project Re-turning, join us for a collective reading of the text ‘Arkive City’ edited by Julie Bacon. Join us for our next Arpentage Collective Reading as part of our project Re-turning which recognises the many hands involved in shaping Void’s past, present and future. This project will include a contribution by PhD researcher Ashab Ahmad, who will present material from Orchard Gallery, Derry’s first contemporary visual arts organisation.
To expand on Ashab’s contribution we will read Arkive City, an anthology edited by Julie Bacon which investigates the role of archives in contemporary society. Contributions in the book map out important questions and shifts in interest that have arisen from the changing role of archiving in culture and its relationship with the arts, through their work curating exhibitions in museums, (de)constructing (art) history, running library and government archives, initiating archives in arts organisations and shaping individual practice.
ℹ️ An arpentage is a method of reading that originated in Italian workers’ circles, aimed at sharing knowledge collectively. The process involves cutting up a book, with each person reading one section. We recount our sections out loud, and with this, read the book together. This way, books that include theory become more accessible and generate conversation.
