THE ARCHIVE

The Living Art Museum’s archive is an eclectic collection of papers and documents connected to the museums exhibition history.  The archive consists of catalogues, audio and video files, letters, photographs, films, and meeting notes among other things.  The archive is an interesting collection with almost arbitrary information about the artists, exhibitions, and other events occurring in relation to the museum.
 
As a part of this year’s anniversary program the Living Art Museum has started two parallel initiatives for organizing and archiving documents from the history of artist-run spaces and performance history in Iceland. This project is a creative collaboration with the Reykjavik City Archive with the aim of making the history of local artist initiatives accessible for future research and preservation. We believe this effort is important to relate the history of Nylo and contemporary art in Iceland to different ideas, theories, and perspectives of cultural history.