2024 Fall Program
CPAL Class:
Managing Ephemera
Instructor:
Sur Rodney Sur
Location:
The Milton Resnick & Pat Passlof Foundation
87 Eldridge St, New York, NY 10002
Date:
October 9, 2024 (Online and In-Person)
Join us for a new CPAL class on Managing Ephemera. Archives are sites of recovery — touch points for connections to the past. This class addresses ways to move through artists' archives — both papers and objects — to create meaning.
This is a two-hour class with the last 15 minutes dedicated to Q&A.
Subjects to be discussed:
What is ephemera and why is it important?
What would be considered an artifact?
Considering inventory spreadsheets vs. data management programs
Identification standards: everything needs an ID#, category, description, measurement, and location
Digital files
Appraisals / Insurance / Valuation?
How are ephemera and artifacts useful? And to whom?
About the instructor:
Sur Rodney (Sur) is an artistic collaborator, curator, writer and archivist who has worked managing the ephemera and artifacts in his own collection and notable others: neo-Dada collage artist Buster Cleveland; multi-media performance artist Arlene Schloss; concept-based artist and writer Lorraine O’Grady; and most recently his late partner Geoffrey Hendricks, an artist associated with Fluxus, are among them.