Claire & I recorded this podcast in May before she officially graduated and before the COVID landscape went to The Really Extra Bad Place that it seems to be at now.
I delayed the ep due to the critical nature of the discussion of the Black Lives Matter issues that needed to be handled but I feel that what Claire and I spoke about is still incredibly relevant and her points on the internships she had and the possibilities of rehabilitation of our field post-COVID are solid and worth considering.
Claire is an amazing and valuable member of the archival world & I am so pleased to be able to have had her on the show twice now!
QUICK NOTE FROM THE PODCASTRESS:
Season 4 is clearly going to be a unique season. What I thought would be a series of conversations centered on mental health, physical health, archiving and preservation in terms of a pandemic will now be returning to some of the major themes that I have looked at and highlighted throughout my show: racism, systemic oppression, horrific violence in all kinds of ways.
But here is what is crucial: discussing COVID-19 and the way that BIPOC experience “America” and “Justice” are parallel and as such they should be talked about within the same context. What I would like to set out to do in the episodes that I record from this point forward, is attempt to connect these things and also work with how that effects the archives community.
That said, I want to state that I have some already recorded episodes that do not follow what I have stated in the above paragraph but are still incredibly valuable (much like Claire’s) and I believe that they truly deserve a good listen. These individuals from our community continue to provide us with the inspiration and hope we need to continue to do The Work however we are doing it in whatever way we choose to participate.
Keep on keepin’ on!
-Ariel
See below podcast as usual for Claire’s kickass bio, and thank you for your patience and continuing to listen.
Claire Fox (she/her/hers) is a recent graduate from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program at New York University. Her graduate research focused on topics in time-based media art conservation and community archiving, and she completed internships at the New Museum, IndieCollect, Yale University Library, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art