S1 Ep5. How do artists use archives in their work?

Are you interested in how artists pull from archives to create work that resonates with the now? This session is part of The Emergency Room – our online event series where members of the Youth Collective host conversations with professionals from across the creative world. 🎤 Hosted by Amie Kirby & Freda Igiogbe🚨 Joined by Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman & Jennifer Reid,✨ Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman is an industrial designer and artist. She is the founder of Studio Sikoki, a design + art + research facility where she explores the dynamics between the object, user and the environment. Alafuro’s work analyses the construction of culture, history and identity of the individual, community and location. ✨ Jennifer Reid, her work is rooted in archives and oral histories, it  braids nineteenth-century music with the present: teaching, performing, researching, sharing, advocating and supporting spaces for memory and making in the tradition.The Emergency Room is an ongoing podcast series where members of the Arts Emergency Youth Collective host open and honest conversations with professionals from across the creative world.Find out more about Arts Emergency: https://www.arts-emergency.org