LAYERING HISTORIES: An archives in place workshop with Alexander Stubbs
We’ll begin with an automatic writing exercise, drawing out our experience of travelling to and arriving at Photobook Cafe. This will help to settle us in and relax us in the space.
Together, we’ll start to informally explore the photographs that Alex has brought to the session. This will involve group conversation and some free association writing exercises to shape our understanding of the images.
Through a process of selection and collecting, we’ll begin to assemble our own archival folder, bringing images and text together to create a layered history. If you have brought your own images, you’ll be encouraged to use those in your archive, too.
To finish the session, we’ll each write an affirmation to the place in which we live. We’ll seal it in an envelope to store in our own personal archives, to be read - or not read - at a later date.
Please bring 3-5 images of your own to the session to include within the Archive. These can be images you took or found imagery.
Social media handles
@alexanderstubbss
Alexander Stubbs is a writer and curator based in Hull. Working primarily in text-based practice, his writing explores the world through imaginary landscapes in order to deconstruct and decode memory, grief, and language. Concerned with the political and social power of self publishing, and the ways in which text and image archives can be reanimated in new contexts, Alexander uses books, zines, and digital platforms to present his work physically. Alexander currently publishes a regular Substack column, SPECTATE, an ongoing series of flash essays recording intimate experiences and research. His latest self-publication, I came home, was published as part of a residency at Hull Artist Research Initiative in Summer 2024.
His writing has also been published in Art Review, Aesthetica, and Corridor 8. Alexander has a particular interest in community-building practices, and shared and embodied knowledge through collaboration. He enjoys working with young people and artists at all stages of their careers, especially in settings outside of mainstream education. Alexander currently self-directs the nomadic reading group project, YAK!, an open and communal reading group exploring radical histories through conversation and text. Alexander is also the curator of Hull Zine Library, an open-source library collecting the works of zine artists and self-publishers across the UK and abroad.
Alexander graduated with an MA in Art History from University of Nottingham, and currently works as the Programme Assistant at Humber Street Gallery.
We’ll begin with an automatic writing exercise, drawing out our experience of travelling to and arriving at Photobook Cafe. This will help to settle us in and relax us in the space.
Together, we’ll start to informally explore the photographs that Alex has brought to the session. This will involve group conversation and some free association writing exercises to shape our understanding of the images.
Through a process of selection and collecting, we’ll begin to assemble our own archival folder, bringing images and text together to create a layered history. If you have brought your own images, you’ll be encouraged to use those in your archive, too.
To finish the session, we’ll each write an affirmation to the place in which we live. We’ll seal it in an envelope to store in our own personal archives, to be read - or not read - at a later date.
Please bring 3-5 images of your own to the session to include within the Archive. These can be images you took or found imagery.
Social media handles
@alexanderstubbss
Alexander Stubbs is a writer and curator based in Hull. Working primarily in text-based practice, his writing explores the world through imaginary landscapes in order to deconstruct and decode memory, grief, and language. Concerned with the political and social power of self publishing, and the ways in which text and image archives can be reanimated in new contexts, Alexander uses books, zines, and digital platforms to present his work physically. Alexander currently publishes a regular Substack column, SPECTATE, an ongoing series of flash essays recording intimate experiences and research. His latest self-publication, I came home, was published as part of a residency at Hull Artist Research Initiative in Summer 2024.
His writing has also been published in Art Review, Aesthetica, and Corridor 8. Alexander has a particular interest in community-building practices, and shared and embodied knowledge through collaboration. He enjoys working with young people and artists at all stages of their careers, especially in settings outside of mainstream education. Alexander currently self-directs the nomadic reading group project, YAK!, an open and communal reading group exploring radical histories through conversation and text. Alexander is also the curator of Hull Zine Library, an open-source library collecting the works of zine artists and self-publishers across the UK and abroad.
Alexander graduated with an MA in Art History from University of Nottingham, and currently works as the Programme Assistant at Humber Street Gallery.
We’ll begin with an automatic writing exercise, drawing out our experience of travelling to and arriving at Photobook Cafe. This will help to settle us in and relax us in the space.
Together, we’ll start to informally explore the photographs that Alex has brought to the session. This will involve group conversation and some free association writing exercises to shape our understanding of the images.
Through a process of selection and collecting, we’ll begin to assemble our own archival folder, bringing images and text together to create a layered history. If you have brought your own images, you’ll be encouraged to use those in your archive, too.
To finish the session, we’ll each write an affirmation to the place in which we live. We’ll seal it in an envelope to store in our own personal archives, to be read - or not read - at a later date.
Please bring 3-5 images of your own to the session to include within the Archive. These can be images you took or found imagery.
Social media handles
@alexanderstubbss
Alexander Stubbs is a writer and curator based in Hull. Working primarily in text-based practice, his writing explores the world through imaginary landscapes in order to deconstruct and decode memory, grief, and language. Concerned with the political and social power of self publishing, and the ways in which text and image archives can be reanimated in new contexts, Alexander uses books, zines, and digital platforms to present his work physically. Alexander currently publishes a regular Substack column, SPECTATE, an ongoing series of flash essays recording intimate experiences and research. His latest self-publication, I came home, was published as part of a residency at Hull Artist Research Initiative in Summer 2024.
His writing has also been published in Art Review, Aesthetica, and Corridor 8. Alexander has a particular interest in community-building practices, and shared and embodied knowledge through collaboration. He enjoys working with young people and artists at all stages of their careers, especially in settings outside of mainstream education. Alexander currently self-directs the nomadic reading group project, YAK!, an open and communal reading group exploring radical histories through conversation and text. Alexander is also the curator of Hull Zine Library, an open-source library collecting the works of zine artists and self-publishers across the UK and abroad.
Alexander graduated with an MA in Art History from University of Nottingham, and currently works as the Programme Assistant at Humber Street Gallery.