Kicking over the traces: creativity and the archive

Half-day seminar on two projects using the Police and Justice Museum archive of crime scene photographs. Kate Richards and Ross Gibson have utilised the images from post 1945-1960 in their suite of creative multimedia artworks Life After Wartime and Peter Doyle has published the book City of Shadows and done historical research on the 1900-1920s period. Presentations and panel discussion will explore creative processes in using = documentary, visual, oral and material archives in historical accounts and art.

The seminar is hosted by the Australian Centre for Public History in the UTS Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.