Archive Stories / Simryn Gill, Yvonne Low and Mary Roberts

Artists and art historians both trade in stories, facts and ideas. Underpinning the seeming solidity of these forms, however, is the slippery practice of research - the work of reading and looking, of collecting and organising, of listening and taking notes. In contrast to the standardised formats that characterise art and art history's public appearances (books, articles, artworks), research work is often deeply personal, beset by contingencies and ungovernable forces. Individual research practices - although not often seen or discussed out loud - have their own poetics and ethics.

In this event, artist Simryn Gill will join art historians Mary Roberts and Yvonne Low in conversation about the research practices that underpin their work, reflecting on the poetics and ethics that shape them, and the forms of knowledge that they expose and conceal.